Global use of death penalty at highest rate for five years
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- More than a third of recorded executions were for drugs offences, a clear breach of international law
- Iran carried out a colossal 576 executions and Saudi Arabia 196, its highest number in 30 years, while China, where death penalty data is kept secret, is thought to have executed thousands
- At least 28,282 people were under sentence of death at the end of 2022
- ‘James Cleverly should unequivocally call on the Chinese authorities to publish official data on China’s massive use of the death penalty’ – Sacha Deshmukh
The number of recorded executions carried out last year reached the highest figure in five years, Amnesty International said today, as it published a global report on the death penalty.
Amnesty’s 46-page report – Death Sentences and Executions 2022, its authoritative annual survey on the death penalty – shows that during 2022 a total of 883 people are known to have been executed across 20 countries, a rise of 53% compared to the number of executions the organisation record...
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