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Capital punishment, also called the death penalty, is the state -sanctioned killing of a person as a punishment for a crime. It has historically been used in almost every part of the world. Since the mid-19th century many countries have abolished or discontinued the practice.
Executions Around the World. 2022. Amnesty International recorded at least 883 executions in 20 countries – a 53% increase from the 579 executions in 18 countries in 2021 – marking the highest total since 2017.
25. Jan. 2024 · The number of executions is rising globally, despite many countries abolishing the use of capital punishment. How many countries use the death penalty? According to the latest figures from...
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
All 11of the recorded executions in 2021 took place in the USA. The rest of the Americas region remained execution-free for the 13th consecutive year. 25 new death sentences were handed down in three countries: USA, Guyana and Trinidad & Tobago. Virginia became the 23rd abolitionist state in the USA and first southern state to have abolished the de...
Amnesty International recorded executions in five countries—Bangladesh, China, Japan, North Korea and Viet Nam—the lowest number in more than two decades. At least 819new death sentences were handed down in 16 countries, a rise of 58% compared to 2020 (517), largely linked to increases in Bangladesh, India, Myanmar, Pakistan and Viet Nam. After a...
Amnesty International recorded one execution and one new death sentence, both in Belarus,which remains the only country in the region carrying out executions. Kazakhstansigned into law a bill abolishing the death penalty for all crimes. Armeniabecame a state party to a key international treaty on abolition of the death penalty. The Russian Federati...
520 executions were recorded in seven countries–Egypt, Iran, Iraq, Saudi Arabia, Syria, United Arab Emirates and Yemen – an increase of 19% on 2020. Recorded executions in Iraqmore than halved, from 45 to 17, though this may have been the result of a slowdown in the executive approvals of death sentences due to the political turmoil that the state ...
The number of executions, recorded in 3 countries, more than doubled to 33, as a result of rises in Somalia and South Sudan. The other country to carry out executions was Botswana. At least 373 new death sentences were handed down in 19 countries, an increase of 22%, due to sharp rises in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Mauritania, and des...
For over 45 years, Amnesty International has been campaigning to abolish the death penalty around the world. Amnesty International monitors its use by all states to expose and hold to account governments that continue to use the ultimate cruel, inhuman and degrading punishment. We publish a report annually, reporting figures and analysing ...
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- Amnesty International holds that the death penalty breaches human rights, in particular the right to life and the right to live free from torture o...
- It is irreversible and mistakes happen. Execution is the ultimate, irrevocable punishment: the risk of executing an innocent person can never be el...
- For 40 years, Amnesty has been campaigning to abolish the death penalty around the world.Amnesty monitors its use by all states to expose and hold...
Global executions. Amnesty International recorded 883 executions in 20 countries in 2022, marking a 53% increase from 579 recorded in 2021. This figure represents the highest number of executions that Amnesty International has recorded in the past five years (since 2017, when 993 executions were recorded).
21. Apr. 2021 · Death penalty in 2020: Facts and figures. Global figures. Amnesty International recorded 483 executions in 18 countries in 2020, a decrease of 26% from 657 recorded in 2019. This figure represents the lowest number of executions that Amnesty International has recorded in the past decade.
