(Angus Reid Global Monitor) - More Brazilians believe capital punishment should be implemented again, according to a poll by Datafolha published in Folha de Sao Paulo. 55 per cent of respondents would vote to reinstate the death penalty in a referendum, up four points since last year.

The South American country abolished capital punishment in 1979, with the exception of crimes of treason committed in a time of war. Brazil ratified the Protocol to the American Convention on Human Rights to Abolish the Death Penalty in August 1996.

Last month, the Brazilian government made an official request to the United Nations (UN) Human Rights Council to achieve the global abolition of capital punishment. Brazilian human rights special secretary Paulo Vannuchi discussed the proposal, declaring, "Countries have widely different legislation on human rights issues. (...) We should open a debate to establish a world without the death penalty."

Green Party (PV) lawmaker Fernando Gabeira discussed the poll's findings, saying, "The decline in public safety is behind the massive support for the death penalty."

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