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Fewer new death sentences were imposed in the United States in 2020 than in any other year since the Supreme Court struck down all existing capital punishments statutes in the U.S. in 1972. With counties unable to safely conduct capital trials, states imposed a record low 18 new death sentences, 42% below the previous record low of 31 set in 2016.
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Amnesty International recorded 483 executions in 18 countries in 2020, a decrease of 26% from 657recorded in 2019. This figure represents the lowest number of executions that Amnesty International has recorded in the past decade. Most known executions took place in China, Iran, Egypt, Iraq and Saudi Arabia – in that order. China remained the world’...
For the 12th consecutive year, the USAremained the only country to carry out executions in the region. The number of executions (17) in 2020, decreased compared to 2019 (22). The number of recorded US death sentences (18) dropped by almost half compared to 2019 (35). After 17 years, the Trump administration resumed US federal executions, eventually...
Although Belarus continued to impose death sentences, there were no executions in 2020. Kazakhstan, the Russian Federation and Tajikistan continued to observe moratoriums on executions. Kazakhstan signed and moved to ratify the Second Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, aiming at the abolition of the death...
The number of recorded executions fell by 25%, from 579 in 2019 to 437 in 2020, while recorded death sentences fell by 11% from 707 in 2019 to 632 in 2020. Amnesty International recorded executions in eightcountries – Egypt, Iran, Iraq, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Syria and Yemen – in the region. Oman and Qatar resumed executions, carrying out their...
Recorded executions in the region went down by 36%, from 25 in 2019 to 16in 2020. Executions were recorded in three countries – Botswana, Somalia and South Sudan; one fewer compared with 2019. Recorded deaths sentences fell by 6%, from 325 in 2019 to 305 in 2020. Death sentences were recorded in 18countries in 2020, the same as 2019. Chad became th...
Apr 22, 2021 · Amnesty International recorded that 1,477 death sentences were imposed in 54 countries, down 36% from at least 2,307 in 2019. At the end of 2020, at least 28,567 people were known to be under sentence of death. The following methods of execution were used across the world in 2020: beheading, electrocution, hanging, lethal injection and shooting.
executions and the imposition of death sentences in sub-Saharan Africa. Recorded executions in the region went down by 36%, from 25 in 2019 to 16 in 2020; a. d recorded death sentences fell by 6%, from 325 in 2019 to 305 in 2020.Executions were recorded in three countries – Botswana, Somalia and South Suda.
Apr 21, 2021 · Notable exceptions were Indonesia, whose 2020 recorded death sentences (117) increased by 46% compared to 2019 (80); and Zambia, which imposed 119 death sentences in 2020, 18 more than in 2019 and the highest recorded in sub-Saharan Africa. Time to abolish the death penalty
Apr 21, 2021 · 21 April 2021. In 2020, while the world was focused on saving lives during the Covid-19 pandemic, some countries were busy taking lives. Amnesty International’s monitoring of the global use of the death penalty in 2020 showed that the number of known executions decreased slightly on the 2019 total, continuing the year-on-year reduction recorded since 2015 and reaching the lowest figure in ...
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May 24, 2022 · This figure does not reflect the many death sentences that were believed to have been imposed in Iran. At least 356 people were sentenced to death by Egyptian courts in 2021, a rise of 34% and the highest number of death sentences that Amnesty International was able to record worldwide in 2021. Sub-Saharan Africa
