The year 2024 marked a negative record in the use of the death penalty in the world in the last 10 years, with 1,518 executions documented in 15 countries, 91 of which were in Middle Eastern countries, led by Iran, Iraq and Saudi Arabia.
This was announced by Amnesty International in its annual report on the global use of the death penalty, writes A2 CNN.
“Iran, Iraq and Saudi Arabia were responsible for the sharp increase in deaths last year, carrying out over 91% of known executions, violating human rights and taking people’s lives on drug-related and terrorism-related charges. The five countries with the highest number of recorded executions in 2024 were China, Iran, Saudi Arabia, Iraq and Yemen.”
In China, figures are not made public, but there is talk of a high recourse to the death penalty, even for minor crimes.
"Thousands of people are believed to have been executed in China, which remains the world's leading executioner, as well as North Korea and Vietnam, which are also believed to widely use the death penalty. The ongoing crises in Palestine (State) and Syria meant that Amnesty International could not confirm a figure," A2 CNN reports.
In the United States, 25 people were executed. The death penalty is also increasingly being used as a tool of repression against protesters and ethnic groups, the Amnesty International report said.
"The death penalty is an abhorrent practice that has no place in today's world. While secrecy continued to shroud control in some countries that we believe are responsible for thousands of executions, it is clear that states that retain the death penalty are an isolated minority," said Agnès Callamard, Secretary General of Amnesty International. (A2 Televizion)
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