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A comprehensive overview of the global status of capital punishment, also called the death penalty, as of 2024. Learn which countries maintain, abolish, or restrict the use of the death penalty, and how many people are executed each year.
As of July 2022, the most recent countries to outlaw the death penalty are Kazakhstan and Papua New Guinea, whose laws abolishing capital punishment went into effect on 29 Dec 2021, and 22 Jan 2022 respectively. Malaysia is expected to follow suit later in 2022.
14 wrz 2023 · Find out which countries have a legal death penalty, which ones have made it illegal, and which ones use it for exceptional crimes only. The data is from Amnesty International’s 2023 report on the global status of the death penalty.
According to the latest figures from Amnesty International, in 2022: 55 countries had the death penalty. Nine of these countries had the death penalty only for the most serious crimes, such...
25 sty 2024 · The death penalty is not used at all in 112 countries, compared with 48 in 1991. Six countries abolished the death penalty either fully, or partially, in 2022.
24 maj 2022 · Amnesty International reports 579 executions in 18 countries in 2021, the second lowest number since 2010. China, Iran, Egypt, Saudi Arabia and Syria were the top executioners, while Sierra Leone, Kazakhstan and Papua New Guinea abolished the death penalty.
Amnesty International UK reports on the use of the death penalty in 20 countries in 2022, with China, Iran and Saudi Arabia as the top executioners. The report also covers death sentences, abolition, violations and regional analysis.
