Last week, Amnesty International released its report on death
sentences and executions for 2011.
The report finds that China executed the most people, with reported
executions numbered in the thousands (the true number of executions is unknown
in China, due to the fact that the government does not publicize the exact
figures). Next was Iran, which
executed over 360 men and women, followed by Saudi Arabia, Iraq, and the United
States, with 82, 68 and 42 executions respectively. The report finds that the
number of countries that imposed death sentences and carried out executions dropped
marginally from 2010 to 2011. Amnesty
International also notes that the United States remains the only G8 country to
utilize executions, and that 20 nations continue to partake in judicial
killings.
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