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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
Additionally, evidence exists that a high incarceration rate...
- Incarceration Rates by Country 2023
China is the world's most active user of the death penalty; according to Amnesty International, China executes more people than the rest of the world combined, each year; [21] but the death penalty for all crimes do not apply to the two special administrative regions, Hong Kong and Macau.
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.
24 maj 2022 · At the end of 2021, at least 28,670 people were known to be under sentence of death. Nine countries held 82% of the known totals: Iraq (8,000+), Pakistan (3,800+), Nigeria (3,036+), USA (2,382), Bangladesh (1,800+), Malaysia (1,359), Viet Nam (1,200+), Algeria (1,000+), Sri Lanka (1,000+).
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.
Over 40 countries have abolished the death penalty for all crimes since 1990. They include countries in Africa (recent examples include Côte d’Ivoire, Senegal), the Americas (Canada, Paraguay), Asia and the Pacific (Bhutan.
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