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This report presents statistics on persons who were under sentence of death in 2020, state and federal death penalty laws in 2020, and historical trends in executions. At yearend 2020, a total of. 31 states and the federal government authorized the death penalty.
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Dec 10, 2021 · The report provides data on which jurisdictions have the death penalty, which jurisdictions carried out an execution in 2020, and which methods of execution are authorized in each jurisdiction. It also presents demographics (including sex, race and ethnicity, age, and education) and criminal history of prisoners under sentence of death.
Apr 21, 2021 · This report covers the judicial use of the death penalty for the period January to December 2020. Amnesty International reports only on executions, death sentences and other aspects of the use of the death penalty, such as commutations and exonerations, where there is reasonable confirmation.
THE USE OF THE DEATH PENALTY IN 2020 “A modern system of criminal justice must be reasonably accurate, fair, humane, and timely. Our recent experience with the Federal Government’s resumption of executions adds to the mounting body of evidence that the death penalty cannot be reconciled with those values.”
- Global figures. Amnesty International recorded 483 executions in 18 countries in 2020, a decrease of 26% from 657 recorded in 2019. This figure represents the lowest number of executions that Amnesty International has recorded in the past decade.
- Regional analysis.
- Americas. For the 12 consecutive year, the USA remained the only country to carry out executions in the region. The number of executions (17) in 2020, decreased compared to 2019 (22).
- Europe and Central Asia. Although Belarus continued to impose death sentences, there were no executions in 2020. Kazakhstan, the Russian Federation and Tajikistan continued to observe moratoriums on executions.
Apr 21, 2021 · Amnesty International’s monitoring of the global use of the death penalty in 2020 showed that the number of known executions decreased slightly on the 2019 total, continuing the year-on-year reduction recorded since 2015 and reaching the lowest figure in more than a decade for the third consecutive year. Despite the overall trend of decline ...
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Dec 1, 2021 · The report provides data on which jurisdictions have the death penalty, which jurisdictions carried out an execution in 2020, and which methods of execution are authorized in each jurisdiction. It also presents demographics (including sex, race and ethnicity, age, and education) and criminal history of prisoners under sentence of death.
