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This list includes all executions since 1976. For a historical database of executions, visit our Espy Database page. Geographical regions are listed as determined by the Bureau of Justice Statistics. Federal Executions are included in the region in which the crime occurred.
Jun 11, 2001 · Sixteen people have been executed since the reinstatement of the federal death penalty in 1988. View a list of earlier executions here.
May 28, 2024 · This report covers the judicial use of the death penalty from January to December 2023. As in previous years, information is collected from a variety of sources, including: official figures; judgments; information from individuals sentenced to death and their families and representatives; media reports; and, as specified, other civil society ...
Amnesty International recorded at least 28 exonerations of prisoners who had been sentenced to death in four countries: Kenya ( 20 ), Morocco/Western Sahara ( 1 ), the USA ( 2 ), and Zimbabwe ( 5 ). Globally, at least 28,282 people were under sentence of death at the end of 2022.
Apr 21, 2021 · The number of recorded executions fell by 25%, from 579 in 2019 to 437 in 2020, while recorded death sentences fell by 11% from 707 in 2019 to 632 in 2020. Amnesty International recorded executions in eight countries – Egypt, Iran, Iraq, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Syria and Yemen – in the region.
In 2021, the resort to the death penalty by a minority of states was on the rise. Through its monitoring, Amnesty International recorded an increase in global executions by 20% on the 2020 figure (from at
Amnesty International opposes the death penalty in all cases without exception regardless of the nature or circumstances of the crime; guilt, innocence or other characteristics of the individual; or the method used by the state to carry out the execution.
