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Crime Statistics > Executions (most recent) by country

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   China  31%
   Iran  20.9%
   Saudi Arabia  9.4%
   Pakistan  8.9%
   Congo, Democratic Republic of the  6.6%
   Egypt  3.2%
   United States  2.8%
   Iraq  2.2%
   Taiwan  2.1%
   Vietnam  1.7%
   Rwanda  1.6%
   Sierra Leone  1.6%
   Afghanistan  1%
   Yemen  1%
   Japan  0.6%
   Libya  0.6%
   Jordan  0.6%
   Sudan  0.5%
   Syria  0.5%
   Bangladesh  0.4%


Rank   Countries  Amount 
# 1     China: 470 executions 
# 2     Iran: 317 executions 
# 3     Saudi Arabia: 143 executions 
# 4     Pakistan: 135 executions 
# 5     Congo, Democratic Republic of the: 100 executions 
# 6     Egypt: 48 executions 
# 7     United States: 42 executions 
# 8     Iraq: 33 executions 
# 9     Taiwan: 32 executions 
# 10     Vietnam: 25 executions 
= 11     Rwanda: 24 executions 
= 11     Sierra Leone: 24 executions 
= 13     Afghanistan: 15 executions 
= 13     Yemen: 15 executions 
= 15     Japan: 9 executions 
= 15     Libya: 9 executions 
= 15     Jordan: 9 executions 
= 18     Sudan: 7 executions 
= 18     Syria: 7 executions 
= 20     Bangladesh: 6 executions 
= 20     Nigeria: 6 executions 
= 20     Oman: 6 executions 
= 23     Somalia: 5 executions 
= 23     Cuba: 5 executions 
# 25     Kyrgyzstan: 4 executions 
# 26     Equatorial Guinea: 3 executions 
= 27     Lebanon: 2 executions 
= 27     Singapore: 2 executions 
= 27     Zimbabwe: 2 executions 
= 27     Bahamas, The: 2 executions 
= 31     Thailand: 1 executions 
= 31     Belarus: 1 executions 
= 31     Indonesia: 1 executions 
= 31     Kuwait: 1 executions 
= 31     Guatemala: 1 executions 
= 31     Botswana: 1 executions 
= 31     Ethiopia: 1 executions 
# 38     Uzbekistan: 0 executions 
Total: 1,514 executions  
Weighted average: 39.8 executions  


DEFINITION: Number of known executions in the country (Data is for 2007). Because these figures include only documented cases; the true figures are likely to be higher in many countries.

SOURCE: Amnesty International

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Gosho
13th October 2011
Kathy,

what do you think should happen to a women who kills a man in cold blood?
An Intellectual
23rd April 2011
Yes the world's richest people are males but honestly, when it all comes down to the core of it, everyone is just human, no real distinction between male and female. We are all vulnerable to everyday temptations in this world. No one is infallable. That's just it.
theman
1st February 2011
Kathy,

"Is there any wonder we know women are the superior gender?"

is that why new zealand is such a strong global power, because it is run by a female?

and why are the majority of the top wealthiest people, most powerful people in the world, Males?
kathy
2nd January 2011
Realist

You are right, When I said violent crime is by males, I would say that yes it is best to kill them before they turn to harming women or children I did not mean before they killed somebody. If a male kills a male, he should pay with his life but if a male kills a woman, there should be no doubt of it. Also, a woman should have the right to kill any male who is atempting to do serious harm to her or her children. I know this may reduce the male poplation but as far as I am concerned, it is better they are male than if they were women.
Realist
23rd October 2010
Kathy, your comments are so short sighted. Any human who seriosly harms or intentionally kills another human being should be executed but all should be treated neutrally until proven guilty by an unbias set of peers.

Where is your sense of justice.
Shadow Streamer
15th October 2010
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SK
22nd September 2010
It is notable that most of the countries in this list have 'dodgy' civil rights records. They are not necessarily linked but the death penalty does not seem to go with having a peaceful, democratic society.
BillyGoat
20th September 2010
If the biggest argument for a person deserving the death penalty is that the victim deserves some form of retribution, then I think it should be the victims responsibility to kill them. If the victim can look the accused in the eyes and still "drop the axe", then I suppose they did have enough anger to justify it. I think it's wrong (and at times unfair to the victim) to have someone else do it.
Kathy
17th July 2010
J-Smooth
6th June 2010 Yes, the best way to help them is to kill them. It is the least expensive and most reliable way.

Since almost all violent crime is by males, I would say that yes it is best to kill them before they turn to harming women or children. If they want to kill other males fine but leave women and children alone. If you do not know who committed a violent crime, you will always be safe to look for someone with testicles to find who did it.

Is there any wonder we know women are the superior gender?
J-Smooth
5th June 2010
Yes, the best way to help them is to kill them. It is the least expensive and most reliable way.
Bobby
5th June 2010
The people that do the worst evils are the sickest and needing the most help. To kill them says that we as humans haven't learned anything yet
mark . mt shasta high, CA
11th May 2010
Brad, are you serious. the death penalty is definetaly the right thing to do to certain people. most people who get the penalty deserve it if not more than death! how would you feel if you had a little 6 year old girl and she got raped and killed by a man! how would you feel i know i would want morwe than the death penalty. i would probably not want him to get the penalty i would want to do it myself.
Brad a High School Student
22nd April 2010
I think that the death penalty is just down right wrong and they should stop it all together or at least make it more easy on the victim and abolish all the cruel and unusal ways they execute people.
Kathy
8th April 2010
If they told the genders of these criminals, you will find that almost all of them were males. And one wonders why we know women are the superior gender.
Kathy
7th April 2010
Any male who seriouly harms or kills a woman should be put to death.
Kathy
7th April 2010
It would be interesting to see this table by gender. It would also be interesting to see the crime for which they are executed as I know that in many of these countries, they execute women for minor crimes while they let males go for the same thing. Since males commit most of the crimes it would only be fair that it would be mostly males who are executed for these crimes.
MartinHolly
16th March 2010
I propose not to hold back until you get enough amount of money to order goods! You can take the home loans or sba loan and feel yourself fine
Bill
15th March 2010
Your data is incorrect. There have been no executions in Taiwan since 2005.
Grad Student
2nd February 2010
If you look at the source information it says that the statistics are based on the year 2007. Hope this helps.
High School Student
13th September 2009
It is titled "Executions (most recent) by country. On what time scale is this based? Is it executions in the past year? the countries history? or what?
Ian Graham
Staff Editor

4th April 2005
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.

Ninety-seven percent of the executions in 2004 took place in China, Iran, Vietnam and the United States. At least 3,400 people were executed in China, more than in all the other countries combined. Iran was second, with 159 known executions, and Vietnam was third, with at least 64. Fifty-nine people were executed in the U.S. last year.

Death sentences were handed out to 7,395 people in 64 countries in 2004. The New York Times said 144 death sentences were handed down in the U.S. last year, the lowest number since 1997.

Ian Graham
Staff Editor

1st March 2005
The United States Supreme Court ruled on March 1, 2005 that the execution of criminals who were under the age of 18 when their crimes were committed is unconstitutional. As a result of this ruling, the death sentences of 70 current death row inmates in the country have been rendered invalid.

Nineteen of the 50 American states currently have laws allowing the execution of 16- and 17-year-old offenders.

According to Amnesty International, five countries – China, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Iran, Pakistan, and the U.S.A. – are known to have executed juvenile offenders since the year 2000. There are also currently juvenile offenders on death row in the Philippines and Sudan.

Of the 18 executions of juveniles known to have taken place since 2000, nine were in the U.S., five were in Iran, and two were in China. Pakistan and the Congo executed one juvenile offender each.

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