Death penalty how many countries

For the Media. For Educators. Fact Sheet. CHILE abolished the death penalty for ordinary crimes. KENYA abolished the mandatory death penalty for murder.

Notes : 1. More than people are thought to have been killed by the state since No advance details are given on when executions are carried out. China is thought to execute thousands of people every year - although they do not record their data. The next-highest for was Iran who is thought to have put more than people to death in And in it was Pakistan, who executed more than people that year.

The executions took place simultaneously at 8am on August Public anger led to the suspension of executions in and they were abolished in Technically, the death penalty could still be imposed for offences including treason , violent piracy or certain military crimes until , but no executions took place.

In America at least, multiple trials, hearings and appeals have to be processed - with a large cost - before a prisoner can be sentenced to death. Jump directly to the content. Sign in. In , the figures are somewhat unclear. Amnesty International estimates that around 3, people from 55 states were executed in If the figure is correct, then had the highest number of recorded executions.

However, this data is unclear on the number of executions done in China. China is secretive about the figures, but estimates place it at thousands of executions.

The actual number of recorded executions is was 1, people, excluding China and North Korea. Countries such as Bangladesh and Egypt had more than double figures in compared to The US had a greater reduction in the number of executions which can be attributed to factors such as legal battles against the penalty.

As of , only Belarus still had the penalty with every other European state voting it out. At least 12 people have been executed in the last seven years in Belarus. Most countries who still have the death penalty use lethal injection.