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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 · countries use the death penalty for exceptional crimes only. 112. countries have made the death penalty illegal. All data is from Amnesty International’s 2023 report on the global status of the death penalty.
There were at least 27,687 people known to be under sentence of death at the end of the year. Commutations or pardons occurred in 27 countries, as well as 9 exonerations that occurred in Kenya (5), the U.S. (3), and Zimbabwe (1).
Current data also shows that there were 579 executions carried out in 2021 by 18 countries. Methods used included beheading, hanging, lethal injection, and shooting. In 2021, China executed more individuals than any other country (1,000+), followed by Iran (314+) and Egypt (83+).
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.
Death sentences were recorded in 16 countries in 2022, compared to 19 in 2021. Sierra Leone and the Central African Republic abolished the death penalty for all crimes, while Equatorial Guinea and Zambia abolished the death penalty for ordinary crimes only.
