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Four UN members (Cuba, Liechtenstein, Monaco and North Korea) do not belong to the IMF hence their economies are not ranked below. Kosovo, despite not being a member of the United Nations, is a member of IMF. Taiwan is not a IMF member but it is still listed in the official IMF indices. Several leading GDP-per-capita (nominal) jurisdictions may ...
Capital punishment by country. 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. Since the mid-19th century many countries have abolished or discontinued the practice.
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2020. Amnesty International recorded at least 483 executions in 18 countries in 2020, down 26.5% from the 657 confirmed executions carried out in 20 countries in 2019. The total — which was the third consecutive year in which confirmed executions reached a 10-year low and the sixth year in a row in which confirmed executions declined — was 70.6% below the 25-year-high total of 1,634 ...
Sep 14, 2023 · 55. countries have a legal death penalty. 23. countries have made the death penalty illegal in practice. 9. 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.
May 24, 2022 · Global figures Amnesty International recorded 579 executions in 18 countries in 2021, an increase of 20% from the 483 recorded in 2020. This figure represents the second lowest number of executions recorded by Amnesty International since at least 2010. Most known executions took place in China, Iran, Egypt, Saudi Arabia and Syria – in that order. China remained the world’s leading ...
More than 70% of the world’s countries are considered to have abolished the death penalty. The nearly 30% of countries retaining the death penalty and carrying out executions are found primarily in the Middle East, North Africa, Asia-Pacific, and some states in the United States.
Global use of death penalty up by 20% - major new report. Annual survey of capital punishment shows how courts re-opening after Covid fuelled increase in death sentences and executions. Disturbing spikes in Iran and Saudi Arabia, while 86 people given death sentences under martial law in Myanmar. At least 28,670 people were under sentence of ...
