AHC: Death penalty remains in widespread use across the developed world

Today, the death penalty has been abolished in almost all developed countries. The United States, Singapore, Japan, and Taiwan are the only industrialized, Western countries to still use it. In fact, abolishing it is a precondition to join the European Union, and abolition has become such a trend that two-thirds of countries in the world dont use it (though avout 60% of the world's population lives in coubtries where its used). The governments of developed countries tend view it as a human rights violation and protest its imposition on their citizens for any reason.

Your challenge is to make capital punishment a widespread, regular punishment still regularly carried out in the Western world and elsewhere in 2017, without any controversy whatsoever.
 
Only way might be that you keep European nations very conservative. Or then some dystopic Europe like Communist or Fascist Europe.
 
I remember a poll that said that minorities generally oppose the death penalty but white respondents supported it. Take Dylan Roof for example - nobody can honestly say what he did was right. But more white respondents wanted the death penalty for him than black respondents because historically, the death penalty has disproportionately been used against minority communities. I'm not sure if something similar happens in Europe (maybe discrimination against those with less money or something), but bias in the application of the death penalty is the biggest obstacle.
 
Side note: Why are Singapore, Taiwan, and Japan considered Western? They're developed but not Western.

America is the only one.
 

CaliGuy

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Today, the death penalty has been abolished in almost all developed countries. The United States, Singapore, Japan, and Taiwan are the only industrialized, Western countries to still use it. In fact, abolishing it is a precondition to join the European Union, and abolition has become such a trend that two-thirds of countries in the world dont use it (though avout 60% of the world's population lives in coubtries where its used). The governments of developed countries tend view it as a human rights violation and protest its imposition on their citizens for any reason.

Your challenge is to make capital punishment a widespread, regular punishment still regularly carried out in the Western world and elsewhere in 2017, without any controversy whatsoever.
You could have the Nazis win WWII and for Fascism and Nazism to thus become both more popular and stronger worldwide in comparison to our TL.

Indeed, would that work for this?
 

CaliGuy

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For the record, Germany was a developed country; thus, if Nazism can succeed there, then Fascist movements might be viable in other developed countries as well.

Also, as for the "no controversy" part, that can be achieved by having Nazis and Fascists silence all dissent by putting dissenting voices into concentration camps and whatnot. Indeed, you never said that this had to be pretty, now did you? ;)
 
I'm using the definition of Western most people seem to use, industrialized countries aligned with the US/NATO.

Alright, but Singapore isn't aligned with either, Taiwan isn't recognized by either as a country, and Japan has few Western cultural influences.

Regardless, the death penalty has to be more humane (which is admittedly difficult) and less biased, with less faulty executions.
 
Maybe have Europe have a really bad crime rate sometime after the war. Like, New York in the late 70s bad, but across the continent. You'd get a generation of people needing law and order policies to feel safe.
 
For the record, Germany was a developed country; thus, if Nazism can succeed there, then Fascist movements might be viable in other developed countries as well.
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Like Spain, Portugal and Italy...


Given the trends in the UK it wouldn't surprise me to see capital punishment return in a decade or so, once the economic disaster of Brexit bites hard.
 
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