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After the Cold War, many more countries followed: 36 countries abolished capital punishment in the 1990s, with 9 in 1990 alone, 23 in the 2000s, 11 in the 2010s, and 7 so far in the 2020s. Since 1985, there have been only 6 years when no country has abolished the death penalty: 2001, 2003, 2011, 2013, 2018 and 2023.
- Countries That Permit The Death Penalty (Amnesty International 2021)*
- Death Sentence Data Are Often Unofficial and Underestimated
- The Declining Use of The Death Sentence
- Profiles of Countries That Use The Death Penalty
Key: 1. Legal — Death penalty is legal and in use. 2. Suspended — Death penalty is legal, but no executions have taken place in at least 10 years. 3. Extreme Only — Death penalty is legal, but only used in extreme cases such as war crimes. 4. Abolished — Death penalty is prohibited in all cases. * Note: Sierra Leone and Kazakhstan passed laws aboli...
Illuminating as its data may be, Amnesty International emphatically cautions that many of the report's numbers are best-guess minimum estimates, and that the true numbers of executions, death sentences, and "death row" prisoners are actually much higher. This is due to the fact that several countries refuse to disclose detailed execution-related da...
Amnesty International's 2021 year-end report noted that 579 executions had been recorded worldwide, spread across 18 countries. While this total is 20% higher than the number of executions in 2020, it is worth noting that 2020's executions were slowed by the COVID-19 pandemic and were the lowest since at least 2010. Overall, the worldwide use of ca...
China
The Chinese government continues to be the world's leading executioner. Although the country's precise execution totals are a closely guarded state secret, they are estimated to be in the thousands annually. Unlike the United States, where death penalty cases are made public and execution dates are announced, the Chinese judicial system requires all death penalty executionsto remain private and confidential. Even the families of the executed individuals are often not informed until after the...
Iran
Precise totals for executions in Iran can be difficult to obtain, as some 88% of Iranian executions are carried out in secret. However, current estimates point to at least 246 executions in 2020 and at least 314 in 2021—including at least four individuals who were minors at the time of their crimes, which is a violation of international law. Iran is also often accused of extracting forced confessions through torture, and is frequently criticized for applying the death sentence to less serious...
Egypt
Executions in this African country increased greatly in frequency after the 2011 revolution, and particularly since President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi took office in 2014. Many human rights organizations accuse the Egyptian governmenet of using executions, which are often conducted in secret after unfair trials and confessions obtained through torture, as a means of suppressing political dissentamong the populace.
International. 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 gen 2024 · The Amnesty International report highlights 11 countries in the world which persistently execute people every year. These include China, Egypt, Iran, Iraq, Saudi Arabia, the US, Vietnam and...
24 mag 2022 · At the end of 2021, at least 28,670 people were known to be under sentence of death. Nine countries held 82% of the known totals: Iraq (8,000+), Pakistan (3,800+), Nigeria (3,036+), USA (2,382), Bangladesh (1,800+), Malaysia (1,359), Viet Nam (1,200+), Algeria (1,000+), Sri Lanka (1,000+).
As of late 2022, 54 countries retain capital punishment, 111 countries have completely abolished it de jure for all crimes, seven have abolished it for ordinary crimes (while maintaining it for special circumstances such as war crimes), and 24 are abolitionist in practice.
14 set 2023 · countries use the death penalty for exceptional crimes only. 112. countries have made the death penalty illegal. All data is from Amnesty International’s 2023 report on the global status of the death penalty.
