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PARIS - The use of the death penalty rose to its highest level in nearly a decade in 2023, an Amnesty International report showed Wednesday -- but nearly three-quarters of the countries in the world no longer put people to death. And while Iran toppled the grim table of most recorded executions last year with at least 853 hangings, China is ...
Though the grounds for execution in Iran are difficult to track, there is evidence that several people were hanged for homosexual behavior in 2005–2006 and in 2016, mostly in cases of dubious charges of rape. In some countries like Iran and Iraq the dominant discourse is that Western imperialism has spread homosexuality.
In December, Ali Bek-Haji and his naibs surrendered upon Russian promises of amnesty but 23 of the 28 were hanged by March 1878. [96] [97] Georgian scholar George Anchabadze noted that this coincided with a major Abkhazian revolt, and is comparable to various earlier mass revolts in the South Caucasus by Georgians, Abkhaz, Transcaucasian Avars, Azeris, Talysh, and Lezghins.
While Iran toppled the grim table of most recorded executions last year with at least 853 hangings, China is believed to be by far the biggest executioner with Amnesty estimating it executes 'thousands' each year in secret.
While Iran toppled the grim table of most recorded executions last year with at least 853 hangings, China is believed to be by far the biggest executioner with Amnesty estimating it executes 'thousands' each year in secret.
