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This report covers the judicial use of the death penalty for the period January to December 2019. As in previous years, information is collected from a variety of sources, including: official figures;
Apr 21, 2020 · Amnesty International’s monitoring of the global use of the death penalty in 2019 showed that the number of known executions decreased slightly on the 2018 total, continuing the year-on-year reduction recorded since 2015 and reaching the lowest figure in more than 10 years.
- Global Death Penalty Figures
- Americas
- Asia-Pacific
- Europe and Central Asia
- Middle East and North Africa
- Sub-Saharan Africa
Amnesty International recorded 657 executions in 20 countries in 2019, a decrease of 5% compared to 2018 (at least 690). This is the lowest number of executions that Amnesty International has recorded in at least a decade. Most executions took place in China, Iran, Saudi Arabia, Iraq and Egypt – in that order. China remained the world’s leading exe...
For the 11th consecutive year, the USA remained the only country to carry out executions in the region. Trinidad andTobagowas the only country to retain the mandatory death penalty for murder. The number of executions (from 25 to22) and death sentences (from 45 to 35) recorded in the US decreased compared to 2018. More than 40% of all recorded exec...
For the first time in almost a decade, the Asia-Pacific region saw a decrease in the number of executing countries, with seven countries carrying out executions during the year. Without a figure for Viet Nam, the number of recorded executions (29) showed a slight decrease due to drops in Japan (from 15 to three) and Singapore (from 13 to four). Thi...
At least two executions were recorded in Belarus in 2019, compared to at least four in 2018. The last time another country in the region carried out executions was in 2005. Kazakhstan, the Russian Federation and Tajikistancontinued to observe official moratoriums on executions. Kazakhstan also announced measures to start the process of joining the ...
The Middle East and North Africa region reported a 16% increase in the number of executions, from 501 in 2018 to 579 in 2019, bucking the trend that has seen a decline in the region’s recorded use of the death penalty since 2015. This was mainly due to a sharp increase in the use of the death penalty in Iraq and Saudi Arabia.Iraq almost doubled the...
Four countries – Botswana, Somalia, South Sudan and Sudan– carried out 25 executions in 2019. Overall recorded executions in the region increased by one compared to 2018. For a second year in a row, South Sudan saw an alarming increase in executions, putting to death at least 11 people in 2019; the highest recorded number in any year since the coun...
Apr 22, 2020 · Five countries are confirmed to have imposed more than 100 death sentences in 2019: Pakistan (632+), Egypt (435+), Bangladesh (220+), India (102), Zambia (101). The U.S. ranked 12 th, with 35 new death sentences imposed.
The Global Study on Homicide 2019 also documents successes in preventing and addressing lethal violence. In particular, the study offers examples of effective community-based interventions in settings afflicted by violence, gangs and organized crime. These accounts show that with targeted interventions backed by
Aug 5, 2024 · La Cour pénale internationale (CPI) mène des enquêtes et, le cas échéant, juge les personnes accusées des crimes les plus graves qui touchent l’ensemble de la communauté internationale : génocide, crimes de guerre, crimes contre l’humanité et crime d’agression.
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464,000 people estimated to have been victims of intentional homicide in 2017. An average global homicide rate of 6.1 victims per 100,000 population was estimated in 2017. About 90 per cent of all homicides recorded worldwide were committed by male perpetrators.
