Dustin quoted Enlightenment Now by Steven Pinker
Enlightenment Now: The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress is a 2018 book written …
The top five countries that still execute people in significant numbers form an unlikely club: China and Iran (more than a thousand apiece annually), Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, and the United States. As in other areas of human flourishing (such as crime, war, health, longevity, accidents, and education), the United States is a laggard among wealthy democracies.