Recent years have seen the world trend towards abolishing the death penalty and in cases where it still exists, there is a major trend towards a moratorium. By 2018, more than 160 United Nations Member States had abolished or voluntarily suspended the death penalty, either in law or in practice. Egypt, meanwhile, has maintained the application of the penalty, and at least 78 texts in Egyptian legislation allow judges to use the death penalty as a sentence for 104 crimes.
