the international human rights organization Amnesty International published a report on the death penalty in the world in 2019. According to available data, in 20 countries were executed, at least 657 people. This is 5 percent less than in 2018.
In reality, human rights activists claim the number executed in the past year, death sentences are much higher, as statistics do not take into account China, do not give official data on executions. The experts of the Amnesty International remains to Express that in this country was executed “thousands” of people.
the world continues to enforce capital punishment was used beheading (in Saudi Arabia), electric chair (in the USA), hanging, lethal injection and shooting. Executed for crimes such as murder, drug offences, rape, kidnapping, “blasphemy”, corruption, treason, etc.
If you do not take into account China’s classified statistics, which the authors believe a priori to be the world leader in number of executions, then 86% of all known cases occur in only four countries: Iran, Saudi Arabia, Iraq and Egypt.
In Iran was executed 251 people, including four inmates were executed for crimes committed before reaching the age of majority. While in this country there were at least 13 instances of public executions.
In Saudi Arabia fixed penalty 184 (this is the largest number of executions was per year in that country during the time of monitoring).
Greatly increased number in Iraq, where in 2019, was executed not less than hundred people – in most cases, the imposition of the death penalty in this country was due to the continuing use of the death penalty against those accused of collaborating with the terrorist group ISIL (is banned in Russia and other countries).
In Egypt, where executed 32 persons, accounting for 62% of all death sentences recorded in the middle East and North Africa.
the United States remains for several years the only Western hemisphere state where executed people, while the number of executions and death sentences in 2019 decreased. Last year there were 22 executions.
Although, as the report says, last year no country have abolished the death penalty in the United States appeared 21st state to abandon the death penalty (it’s new Hampshire), and the Governor of California, where all the States on death row sits most sentenced, imposed a moratorium on the death penalty.
