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21. Apr. 2021 · 21 April 2021. In 2020, while the world was focused on saving lives during the Covid-19 pandemic, some countries were busy taking lives. Amnesty International’s monitoring of the global use of the death penalty in 2020 showed that the number of known executions decreased slightly on the 2019 total, continuing the year-on-year reduction recorded since 2015 and reaching the lowest figure in ...
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). China remained the world’s leading executioner , but the true extent of the use of the death penalty in this country remains unknown as this data remains classified as a state secret.
Extrajudicial executions and killings are not included. In general, executions carried out in the territory of a sovereign state when it was a colony or before the sovereign state gained independence are not included. The colours on the map correspond to and have the same meanings as the colours in the charts.
24. Mai 2022 · Global figures Amnesty International recorded 579 executions in 18 countries in 2021, an increase of 20% from the 483 recorded in 2020. This figure represents the second lowest number of executions recorded by Amnesty International since at least 2010. Most known executions took place in China, Iran, Egypt, Saudi Arabia and Syria – in that order. China remained the world’s leading ...
16. Mai 2023 · BBC News. The number of executions recorded globally in 2022 was the highest in five years, as several Middle Eastern states ramped up their use of the death penalty, Amnesty International says. A ...
Executions for these offences were very likely to have been carried out in Viet Nam, but secrecy prevented confirmation. At the end of 2022, 325 executions were recorded for drug-related offences. The number more than doubled the 134 executions recorded for the crime in 2021 and represented 37% of known global executions in 2022. Of the 325 ...
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