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Global Review of Death Penalty
April 25 , 2021
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- The Amnesty International recently released the global Review of Death Penalty.
- Around 483 executions were recorded in eighteen countries according to the report published by Amnesty International.
- In 2019, the number of executions recorded were 657.
- The number of executions has grown by 26% in 2020 as compared to 2019.
- The maximum number of executions happened in China, Iran, Egypt, Iraq and Saudi Arabia in that order.
- Around sixteen women have been executed among the 483.
- They were from Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Iran and Oman.
- The countries such as India, Qatar, Oman and Taiwan have resumed executions.
- The executions in Iraq have halved from hundred in 2019 to 45 in 2020.
- The executions in Saudi Arabia have decreased by 85%.
- The countries used beheading, hanging, electrocution, shooting and lethal injection as methods of execution.
- Iran executed three people for crimes that were committed by them when they were below 18 years old.
- China, Iran and Saudi Arabia executed at least 30 people for crimes related to drugs.
- The Asia-Pacific countries that carried out executions in 2020 were India, China, Bangladesh, North Korea, Vietnam and Taiwan.
- Pakistan, Singapore and Japan did not report any executions.
- China was the leading executioner in the world.
- However, the exact number of executions being carried out in China is unknown.
Note:
- Chad has abolished death penalty for all crimes.
- Colorado has become the twenty second state in the United States to abolish death penalty.
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