now this section: The United States is one of the 30% of the world's countries that still have the death penalty. However, use of the death penalty in the U.S. is steadily decreasing. Most states37 out of 50have either abolished the death penalty or have not carried out an execution in at least 10 years. An additional two states have not had an execution in at least five years, for a total of 39 states with no death penalty or no executions in that time. Two additional jurisdictions either have abolished the death penalty (the District of Columbia) or have not had an execution in at least 10 years (the U.S. Military).[1] "In the 20 years I've been telling my story, I've seen the American public lose its fervor for the death penalty," said Ray Krone, the 100th death row exoneree and co-founder of Witness to Innocence with Sister Helen Prejean, author of Dead Man Walking. Krone was a military veteran working for the post office when, in 1992, he was convicted and sentenced to death in Arizona. The case used to convict him was made up of circumstantial evidence and junk science. He was exonerated when DNA found at the murder scene identified the actual killer and prosecutors dropped the charges