We recently released our annual report on global death penalty statistics.While the use of the death penalty continues to decrease worldwide, a handful of countries accounted for the sheer majority of executions this past year – China, Iran, Iraq, Saudi Arabia and the United States.
But many important steps are being taken to finally close the book on capital punishment once and for all. In fact, for the first time since Amnesty International started keeping records, not a single execution was carried out in all of Europe. Furthermore, the UN General Assembly is progressing in its efforts to turn resolutions calling for a worldwide moratorium on the death penalty into reality.
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