More than two-third of the countries in the world has abolished the death penalty in law or in practice.
Out of the 58 countries that have not abolished the sentence, only a few are known to have carried out executions, the rest have mostly stopped executions in practice.
Here are 17 interesting facts you might want to know about the death sentence as at 2014.
1) More than two-third of the countries in the world has abolished the death penalty in law or in practice
2) The number of executions in china is a state secret
3) The number of execution in china is estimated to be more than the rest of the world put together .
4) The five biggest executioners are China, Iran, Iraq, Saudi Arabia and USA.
5) Iran, Iraq and Saudi Arabia are responsible for 95% of all executions in the Middle East and North Africa
6) Countries that have resumed execution recently are Nigeria, Kuwait Vietnam and Indonesia.
7) Countries that tried to hide their execution by trying to carry it out in near total secrecy includes : Malaysia, Indonesia, India, South Sudan, Japan and Iran.
8) USA and Japan are the only G8 countries that carried out executions.
9) USA is the only country in the Americas to carry out executions.
10) 41% of the executions in USA took place in Texas.
11) Maryland became the 18th state in the USA to abolish capital punishment.
12) Belarus is the last country in Europe and in Central Asia to still use the death penalty.
13) Bolivia, Guinea-Bissau and Latvia ratified a UN treaty to abolish death penalty.
14) Non-lethal crimes that were punished by death sentence as at 2013 included: adultery,blasphemy, economic crimes, rape, aggravated robbery, different forms of treason and crimes against the state.
15) Drug related offences were the most non-lethal crime punished by death sentence as at 2013
16) People were executed in Saudi Arabia and possibly Iran and Yemen for crimes they committed when they were juveniles.
17) In North Korea, death sentence is the punishment for the following crimes:murder, cannibalisim,embezzlement, pornography,corruption, escaping to china, watching banned videos
18) 98 countries in the world have abolished capital punishment for all offences in the world.
Credit to Amnesty international.
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