Amnesty report reveals the world’s top five executioners of 2018: China, Iran, Saudi Arabia, Vietnam and Iraq
Executions across the world reached their lowest figure in a decade last year with a 31 percent decrease, according to aCompared with 2017, there were 303 fewer executions last year, with the number of global executions dropping to 690 from 993. Amnesty added that the drop came despite regressive steps by a small number of countries.
“The dramatic global fall in executions proves that even the most unlikely countries are starting to change their ways and realise the death penalty is not the answer,”The advocacy group noted that it only kept records for known executions worldwide. Countries like China, Belarus, and Vietnam classify executions as state secrets or do not report them.
After the drug law amendment in the country, the number of death penalty convictions included 160 people who were convicted of murder and 22 men who were convicted of raping a woman.With 149 executions in 2018, Saudi Arabia failed to abide by international standards on fair trials by conducting them in secret with those accused had no legal representation, Amnesty said.
Amnesty says the death penalty continued to be used extensively for drug-related offences and murder, while several people faced death penalties for economic crimes.Despite a 58 percent decrease in the number of executions in 2018, Iraq carried out at least 52 executions, which were carried out with “flagrant violations of due process”, according to the Amnesty report. At least 125 people were executed in 2017.
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