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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.
- Incarceration Rates by Country 2023
Every country in the world has a prison system of some sort,...
- Incarceration Rates by Country 2023
Amnesty International recorded 2,052 death sentences imposed in 56 countries, up 39% from at least 1,477 in 54 countries in 2020. Ethiopia, Guyana, Maldives, Oman, Tanzania, and Uganda handed down death
Singapore has the highest Human Development Index of all the countries that use the death penalty, while Japan has both the highest inequality-adjusted HDI and the highest planetary pressures–adjusted HDI.
Executions Around the World. 2023. Amnesty International recorded at least 1,153 executions in 16 countries – a 31% increase from the 883 executions in 20 countries in 2022 – marking the highest total since 2015 but the lowest number of executing countries on record with the organization.
3 sie 2021 · This factsheet provides information about the death penalty statuses of countries around the world, and parties and signatories of international abolition treaties.
At least 2,016 new death sentences across 52 countries were imposed in 2022, compared to at least 2,052 in 56 countries in 2021. Amnesty International recorded commutations or pardons of death sentences in 26 countries.
21 mar 2024 · ABSTRACT. We identify four patterns of diffusion that are likely to explain how trends in death penalty usage spread among countries. The first is geographic proximity, which creates dependency relations between nations that in turn affect the spread of changes in death penalty regimes.
