While in prison before her execution, she corresponded with her husband many times, and wrote over 10,000 words down in a diary, expressing her remorse for her crime. Despite campaigns calling for an end to capital punishment, executions are still carried out around the world. One of the key factors for this is public executions. Amnesty International recorded 657 executions in 20 countries in 2019, a decrease of 5 per cent compared to 2018 (at least 690). "Public support for the death penalty is at a decades-long low," Ms Ndulue said. Saudi Arabia carries out executions mainly by beheading and sometimes in public. 8. While Pakistan mulls over bringing the public death penalty back in the fold, Saudi Arabia, Somalia, North Korea, and Iran practice it openly. To end the death penalty is to abandon a destructive diversionary and divisive public policy that is not consistent with widely held values. As of 2019, in Europe, the death penalty for both civilian and military crimes has been abolished in all countries except Belarus. In Tunisia, 125 people on death row had their sentence commuted to life by the transitional government. Amnesty International recorded 657 executions in 20 countries in 2019, a decrease of 5% compared to 2018 (at least 690). Which countries still have the death penalty – and who executes the most prisoners? The kingdom had argued that public executions and those of drug traffickers serve as a deterrent to combat crime. The death penalty, or "capital punishment" if one prefers a friendlier term, is the planned killing of an individual by a government or ruling entity in response to a crime. Afghanistan is the 8 country with most deaths by death penalty where the capital punishment is still legal and supported. The following are the 10 countries with the highest number of executions in 2018. It is considered the just punishment for a person legally convicted of an action which is deemed a safety threat to society. The 2019 statistics are published in Amnesty's Death Sentences and Executions 2019 report which was released today. A young Syrian woman accused of adultery pleaded for forgiveness moments before she was stoned to death. According to Gallup, support has dropped from 80% in the 1990 to 55% in 2020. “The figures compiled by the charity represent a minimum number of recorded executions, with numbers in many countries thought to in fact be much higher,” reports The Daily Telegraph. In Russia, the death penalty has been indefinitely suspended (under moratorium), since 1996 and has not been used since either 1996 or 1999.. Following the invasion of Iraq in 2003 the US suspended capital punishment there. The figures represent minimum values according to Amnesty International. This is the lowest number of executions that Amnesty International has recorded in at least a decade. in 2013, 22 countries executed people, according to Amnesty International. There were 3,797 known executions in 25 countries in 2004, according to Amnesty International. The number of executions is the most in nearly a decade and the second-largest worldwide total in the past 25 years. Global death penalty figures. This video uploaded to Chinese website Sina shows a macabre scene of a public execution in what is believed to be the Guizhou province. Many countries have altogether banned the executions by hanging punishment while international human rights organizations strive for a complete global ban on the act of hanging till death. In the United States lethal injection is considered the most humane form of execution, although recent debate over the secrecy surrounding the drugs used has questioned that assertion. Public executions were a deterrent, a vengeful enactment of moral justice and a morbid form of entertainment but in the 19th century, many western nations began moving their gallows behind grey prison walls. Here is a list of the five countries with the highest rates of capital punishment. Nigeria. The kingdom had argued that public executions and those of drug traffickers serve as a deterrent to combat crime. “The moratorium on drug-related offenses means the kingdom is giving more non-violent criminals a second chance,” the president of the government’s Human Rights Commission, Awwad Alawwad, said. MIM: Bilal Philips proclaimed that " the cutting of hands and heads,stoning of people to death, and lashings are only to be held on Fridays". Of their 36 million inhabitants 97% are Islamic. In past centuries, public executions of criminals had several purposes. Most executions took place in China, Iran, Saudi Arabia, Iraq and Egypt – in that order. The “hysterical behavior” by spectators was so scandalous that French president Albert Lebrun immediately banned all future public executions. The death penalty not only runs the risk of irrevocable error, it is also costly to the public purse as well as in social and psychological terms.The death penalty has not been proved to have a special deterrent effect. The Middle East saw 557 executions in six countries - the vast majority of the list. However, the last executions in the United Kingdom were in August 1964, for murder. Most states in the U.S. which allow for the death penalty due so because of murder. Liu Yiping, Guangzhou Baiyun Airport ticketing agent, executed after being convicted of embezzling 550,000, the illicit gains recovered. In 2019, at least 251 people were executed in Iran. Guillotine was the only mean of execution that the French republic had ever known, the device was in service from 1792 to 1977. In some countries public executions are carried out to heighten the element of deterrence. Public support for capital punishment has declined in the United States. Running counter to much of the rest of the world, Nigeria’s president decided to strengthen anti-homosexual laws in 2014. Iraqi law imposes the death penalty for 48 crimes; In our 5 country sampling, Iraq has the second highest per capita incidence of execution. At least 21 countries were known to have carried out executions in 2012, according to Amnesty International. DEATH SENTENCES AND EXECUTIONS 2018 AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL 600 550 500 450 400 350 300 250 200 150 100 50 0 1,000s 253+ 149 85+ 52+ 43+ 25 15 14+ 13 EXECUTING COUNTRIES IN 2018 This map indicates the general locations of boundaries and jurisdictions and The public is said to “overwhelmingly” support capital punishment. Except for Belarus, which carried out two executions in 2018, the last execution occurred in Ukraine in 1997. Samuel Osborne @SamuelOsborne93. The following is a summary of the use of capital punishment by country. If you have a sensitive stomach look away now. Read More: Taiwan Becomes First Place in Asia to Legalize Same-Sex Marriage. Stoning to death is another form of public execution in a country that kills hundreds of people each year. Afghanistan.

Ninety-seven percent of the executions in … This statistic shows the number of executions worldwide in 2019. I f the figures for countries where additional executions may have taken place without public disclosure were doubled, Alabama would still be in the Top 10.Somalia would be 9th, but Bangladesh has a population of over 156 million. China, Iran, Pakistan and Saudi Arabia execute the highest number of people. Saudi Arabia carries out executions mainly by beheading and sometimes in public. https://www.en-hrana.org/video-footage-public-execution-surak-city-northern-iran Public Hanging.