Good News: Number of executions worldwide has dropped; Bad News: Death Row population is increasing
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[quote]The number of executions carried out worldwide in 2014 dropped significantly compared to a year earlier, but the number of death sentences that were issued spiked to nearly 2,500 — a 28 percent jump from 2013, according to a report released Tuesday by Amnesty International.
The rights group said that at least 607 executions took place across the world in 2014, down from 778 in 2013. That figure excludes executions that took place in China, which Amnesty said treats death penalty data as a “state secret” and has “carried out more executions than the rest of the world combined.” Amnesty estimates that China executes more than 1,000 individuals a year.
Three countries — Iran (289), Iraq (61) and Saudi Arabia (90) — accounted for 72 percent of all recorded executions in 2014. The U.S., with 35 executions, had the fifth-highest number of executions in 2014.
While the number of executions fell, Amnesty says the increase in the number of death sentences handed down is due in significant part to mass sentences in Egypt and Nigeria, both of which have dealt with "internal conflict and political instability." At least 2,466 death sentences were handed down worldwide in 2014, with Egypt and Nigeria accounting for 1,168 of them.[/quote]
[url]http://america.aljazeera.com/articles/2015/3/31/executions-down-but-death-sentences-spike-in-2014.html[/url]
Graph is in the link, couldn't copypasta it here.
Let's pull a Starcraft and send away all DR-convicts on three huge spaceships.
[QUOTE=source]Executions down worldwide in 2014, but death sentences spike[/QUOTE]
impalement isn't a nice way to go
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