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Capital punishment, also called the death penalty, is the state -sanctioned killing of a person as a punishment for a crime. It has historically been used in almost every part of the world.
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.
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.
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.
25 sty 2024 · How many countries use 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...
In 88 countries, a death penalty imposed by law. Of these, nine countries apply the death penalty only to particularly serious crimes such as, war crimes. It has also been discontinued in another 23 countries for at least ten years — although there can still be penalties with pending executions.
Global death sentences. 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.
