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Key phrase or Title Amnesty Index Quantity 12 months Doc Language Albanian Amharic Arabic Armenian Aymara Azerbaijani Belarusian Bengali Bosnian Brazilian Portuguese Bulgarian Burmese Catalan Cebuano Chinese language Croatian Czech Danish Dari Dutch English Esperanto Estonian Filipino Finnish French Georgian German Greek Guarani Gujarati Haitian Hausa Hebrew Hindi Hungarian Ido Indonesian Italian Japanese Kazakh Khmer Kinyarwanda Kirghiz Korean Kurdish Kurmanji Latvian Lithuanian Macedonian Malagasy Malay Malayalam Maldivian Mapudungun Maya Moldavian Mongol Nepali Oriya Oromo Pashto Persian Polish Portuguese Punjabi Qeqchi Quechua Rapanui Romanian Romany Rundi Russian Serbian Sinhalese Slovak Slovenian Somali Southern Sotho Spanish Swahili Swati Swedish Tagalog Tajik Tamil Telugu Tetum Thai Tharu Tibetan Tigrinya Tok Pisin Conventional Chinese language Turkish Turkmen Ukrainian Urdu Uyghur Uzbek Venda Vietnamese Xhosa Xinca Zulu Amnesty Worldwide recorded 579 executions in 18 nations in 2021, a rise of 20% from the 483 recorded in 2020.
This determine represents the second lowest variety of executions recorded by Amnesty Worldwide since a minimum of 2010.
Most identified executions passed off in China, Iran, Egypt, Saudi Arabia and Syria , in that order.
China remained the world’s main executioner , however the true extent of its use of the dying penalty is unknown as this information is classed as a state secret; the worldwide figures for executions and dying sentences due to this fact exclude the hundreds of those that Amnesty Worldwide believes to have been sentenced to dying and executed in China.
Figures for North Korea and Viet Nam , that are believed to have extensively resorted to executions, have been additionally not included within the world executions determine, as secrecy and lack of entry to impartial data made it inconceivable to evaluate developments.
Amnesty Worldwide recorded 24 girls among the many 579 folks identified to have been executed in 2021 (4%), within the following nations: Egypt (8), Iran (14), Saudi Arabia (1) and USA (1) .
Belarus, Japan and UAE resumed executions.
Amnesty Worldwide didn't report any executions in India , Qatar and Taiwan, having accomplished so in 2020.
Iran executed a minimum of 314 folks (up from a minimum of 246 in 2020), their highest variety of executions since 2017, reversing year-on-year declines since then.
Recorded executions in Saudi Arabia rose sharply, from 27 to 65, a rise of 140% %.
Regardless of these will increase, the 2021 world executions determine constitutes the second-lowest determine recorded by Amnesty Worldwide since a minimum of 2010.
For the second consecutive yr, the variety of nations identified to have executed folks was the bottom the group has recorded.
In 2019, 2020 and 2021 Amnesty Worldwide recorded 657, 483 and 579 executions respectively.
In July, Sierra Leone’s parliament unanimously adopted an Act which abolishes the dying penalty for all crimes.
Kazakhstan adopted laws in December abolishing the dying penalty for all crimes, which got here into impact this yr.
Papua New Guinea launched into a nationwide session on the dying penalty, which resulted within the adoption of an abolition Invoice in January 2022, nonetheless to come back into power.
The Authorities of Malaysia introduced that it will desk legislative reforms on the dying penalty within the third quarter of 2022.
On the finish of 2021, greater than two thirds of the world’s nations had abolished the dying penalty in regulation or observe. 108 nations, a majority of the world’s states, had abolished the dying penalty in regulation for all crimes and 144 nations had abolished the dying penalty in regulation or observe. 55 nations nonetheless retained the dying penalty.
Amnesty Worldwide recorded commutations or pardons of dying sentences in 19 nations: Bangladesh, Botswana, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Guyana, India, Indonesia, Iran, Malaysia, Myanmar, Pakistan, Sierra Leone, South Sudan, Taiwan, Thailand, Trinidad and Tobago, UAE, USA, Zambia and Zimbabwe.
Amnesty Worldwide recorded seven exonerations of individuals below sentence of dying in 4 nations: Bahrain (1), Kenya (1), USA (2) and Zambia (3).
Amnesty Worldwide recorded 2,052 dying sentences imposed in 56 nations, up 39% from a minimum of 1,477 in 54 nations in 2020.
Ethiopia, Guyana, Maldives, Oman, Tanzania, and Uganda handed down dying sentences having not accomplished so in 2020, whereas the reverse was true of Bahrain, Comoros, Laos and Niger.
On the finish of 2021, a minimum of 28,670 folks have been identified to be below sentence of dying. 9 nations held 82% of the identified totals: Iraq (8,000+), Pakistan (3,800+), Nigeria (3,036+), USA (2,382), Bangladesh (1,800+), Malaysia (1,359), Viet Nam (1,200+), Algeria (1,000+), Sri Lanka (1,000+).
The next strategies of execution have been used the world over in 2021: beheading, hanging, deadly injection and capturing . 4 folks have been executed for crimes that occurred after they have been beneath 18 years of age : in Iran (3) and Yemen (1).
Amnesty Worldwide believes that different folks on this class remained on dying row in Maldives, Myanmar and Iran.
At the least 134 executions for drug-related offences have been identified to have been carried out in two nations (China and Iran), a rise of 346% from 2020 (30).
Info on Viet Nam, which may be very more likely to have carried out such executions, was unavailable.
Dying sentences have been identified to have been imposed after proceedings that didn't meet worldwide truthful trial requirements in nations together with Algeria, Bangladesh, Cameroon, Egypt, Iran, Myanmar, Nigeria, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, Somalia, Singapore and Yemen.
All 11 of the recorded executions in 2021 passed off within the USA.
The remainder of the Americas area remained execution-free for the thirteenth consecutive yr. 25 new dying sentences have been handed down in three nations: USA, Guyana and Trinidad & Tobago.
Virginia grew to become the twenty third abolitionist state within the USA and first southern state to have abolished the dying penalty.
For the third consecutive yr, Ohio rescheduled or halted all set executions.
The brand new US administration additionally established a short lived moratorium on federal executions in July. 2021 marked the bottom variety of executions within the US since 1988 .
Amnesty Worldwide recorded executions in 5 nations , Bangladesh, China, Japan, North Korea and Viet Nam, the bottom quantity in additional than 20 years.
At the least 819 new dying sentences have been handed down in 16 nations, an increase of 58% in comparison with 2020 (517), largely linked to will increase in Bangladesh, India, Myanmar, Pakistan and Viet Nam.
After a hiatus of 24 months, Japan hanged three folks.
For the second consecutive yr, Pakistan reported no executions and likewise prohibited the usage of the dying penalty on these recognized with extreme psychological (psycho-social) disabilities.
Thailand continued to commute dying sentences.
The specter of reintroduction of the dying penalty within the Philippines diminished as three of its proponents within the Senate introduced they might oppose any such transfer.
Though Singapore reported no executions for the second consecutive yr, the nation has resumed executions in 2022.
Amnesty Worldwide recorded one execution and one new dying sentence, each in Belarus, which stays the one nation within the area finishing up executions.
Kazakhstan signed into regulation a invoice abolishing the dying penalty for all crimes.
Armenia grew to become a state social gathering to a key worldwide treaty on abolition of the dying penalty.
The Russian Federation and Tajikistan continued to look at moratoriums on executions. 520 executions have been recorded in seven nations , Egypt, Iran, Iraq, Saudi Arabia, Syria, United Arab Emirates and Yemen , a rise of 19% on 2020.
Recorded executions in Iraq greater than halved, from 45 to 17, although this will likely have been the results of a slowdown within the govt approvals of dying sentences as a result of political turmoil that the state was in for a lot of the yr.
A mass execution of 24 folks in Syria in October made the nation the fifth largest recorded executor in 2021.
There have been a minimum of 834 new dying sentences in 17 nations , a leap of 32%, with sharp will increase in Egypt, Iraq and Lebanon.
This determine doesn't mirror the numerous dying sentences that have been believed to have been imposed in Iran.
At the least 356 folks have been sentenced to dying by Egyptian courts in 2021, an increase of 34% and the best variety of dying sentences that Amnesty Worldwide was capable of report worldwide in 2021.
The variety of executions, recorded in 3 nations, greater than doubled to 33 , on account of rises in Somalia and South Sudan .
The opposite nation to hold out executions was Botswana .
At the least 373 new dying sentences have been handed down in 19 nations, a rise of twenty-two%, resulting from sharp rises within the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Mauritania , and regardless of a major drop in Zambia .
In July, Sierra Leone’s parliament unanimously adopted an Act which abolishes the dying penalty for all crimes.
In Central African Republic and Ghana , legislative processes to abolish the dying penalty have been began and stay ongoing.
At the least 5,843 folks have been held below a sentence of dying, with Nigeria holding 52% of them (a minimum of 3,036).
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