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The Death Penalty Information Center has updated its Death Penalty Census, a database of every death sentence imposed since 1972. The database now contains information accurate as of January 1, 2022, inclusive of the 50th year of the modern death penalty. The Census contains information on 9, 820 death sentences ...
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Race: While the vast majority of murders are committed...
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Suspended. Countries with Death Penalty 2024. Snapshot. Over 70% of all countries have abolished the death penalty, with Kazakhstan and Papua New Guinea being recent examples, signaling a global trend away from capital punishment. China, as the top executor worldwide, conducts thousands of executions annually, with actual figures kept secret ...
Race: While the vast majority of murders are committed against individuals of the same race as the perpetrator, the census data showed:. It is 5.9 times more likely that an execution carried out in the U.S. over the past 50 years involved one or more white victims (1207 cases) than that it involved only Black victims (206 cases). 78.1% of executions in the U.S. in the past 50 years were in ...
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
For the 14th consecutive year, the USA remained the only country in the region to carry out executions. The number of executions carried out in the USA increased by 64%, rising from 11 in 2021 to 18 in 2022. Outgoing Governor of Oregon Kate Brown commuted all remaining death sentences in the state. For the sixth consecutive year, Guyana, Trinidad a...
In Asia-Pacific, eight countries (Afghanistan, Bangladesh, China, Japan, Myanmar, North Korea, Singapore and Viet Nam) are known to have carried out executions in 2022, an increase from five in 2021. The number of new death sentences recorded regionally increased by 5% from 819 in 2021 to 861 in 2022. Military authorities carried out the first exec...
Belarus carried out one execution in 2022. It was the only country in Europe and Central Asia to do so. Kazakhstan abolished the death penalty for all crimes and ratified a key UN treaty on abolition. Russia and Tajikistan continued to observe moratoriums on executions.
The number of executions recorded in the Middle East and North Africa region increased by 59%, rising from 520 in 2021 to 825 in 2022. 94% of executions recorded in the region were carried out in Iran (70%) and Saudi Arabia (24%). Executions resumed in Kuwait and the State of Palestine for the first time since 2017. Recorded death sentences in the ...
Recorded executions in the region decreased by 67%, from 33 in 2021 to 11in 2022. The only known executions were recorded in Somalia and South Sudan. Recorded death sentences fell by 20%, from 373 in 2021 to 298 in 2022. Death sentences were recorded in 16 countries in 2022, compared to 19 in 2021. Sierra Leone and the Central African Republic abol...
May 24, 2022 · Death Penalty. News. Global figures Amnesty International recorded 579 executions in 18 countries in 2021, an increase of 20% from the 483 recorded in 2020. This figure represents the second lowest number of executions recorded by Amnesty International since at least 2010. Most known executions took place in China, Iran, Egypt, Saudi Arabia and ...
Amnesty’s Report, Death Sentences and Executions 2021, is an authoritative annual survey on the death penalty and shows that at least 579 executions were known to have been carried out in 18 countries last year , a 20% increase on the recorded total for 2020. As in previous years, the data does not include the thousands of people Amnesty ...
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Aug 3, 2021 · The Cornell Center on the Death Penalty Worldwide was founded with a grant from The Atlantic Philanthropies. This factsheet provides information about the death penalty statuses of countries around the world, and parties and signatories of international abolition treaties.
