Singapore hanged a prisoner on Wednesday after he was convicted of a medication offence, the twelfth execution within the Asian city-state since final yr.
It is one among a number of dozen nations, together with the United States, China, Iran, Egypt and Saudi Arabia, that proceed to place prisoners to loss of life.
TREND TOWARDS ABOLITION
At least 579 folks have been put to loss of life in 18 nations in 2021, 96 greater than within the earlier yr, rights group Amnesty International says.
But the uptick adopted six years of marked decline within the variety of executions.
“Although the global trend remains unmistakably in favour of abolition, the recorded increases in 2021 should act as a warning that it is not yet time to let off pressure,” Amnesty wrote in a May 2022 report.
Three nations accounted for 80 p.c of all reported executions in 2021: Iran, with 314 (up 28 p.c), Egypt with 83, and Saudi Arabia with 65 (a rise of 240 p.c).
Amnesty’s figures don’t embrace executions in China, believed to be the world’s largest executioner, in addition to North Korea and Vietnam. The three nations hold their information secret.
ABOLISHED IN 108 COUNTRIES
A complete of 108 nations had formally abolished the loss of life penalty for all crimes by the top of 2021, in accordance with Amnesty, up from 16 nations in 1977.
More than two-thirds have abolished it both in regulation or follow, with Kazakhstan, Malawi and Sierra Leone the newest nations to introduce a ban.
UNITED STATES
Executions fell 35 p.c within the United States in 2021 on the earlier yr, with 11 folks put to loss of life in six jurisdictions.
It was the bottom variety of executions within the nation since 1988.
President Joe Biden’s administration imposed a moratorium on all federal executions in July 2021 following a wave of controversial circumstances underneath former president Donald Trump.
Virginia grew to become the twenty third state to abolish the loss of life penalty in 2021, the primary state from the previous Confederate south to take action.
Three different states — California, Oregon, and Pennsylvania — have a moratorium on the loss of life penalty, that means they don’t apply it though it stays on the statute books.
SAUDI ARABIA
Saudi Arabia put 81 folks to loss of life in a single day in March final yr, greater than the 69 executed in all of 2021 and an enormous leap from 2020 when 27 folks have been put to loss of life.
IRAN
The 314 folks executed in Iran final yr was the very best quantity since 2017 and seems to primarily be folks convicted of drug-related offences, Amnesty stated.
EGYPT
Egypt executed 22 p.c fewer folks in 2021 in comparison with 2020, with eight ladies among the many 83 folks put to loss of life.
DEATH SENTENCES
Amnesty stated not less than 2,052 loss of life sentences have been handed out around the globe in 2021, a rise of 39 p.c over the earlier yr, reversing an almost equal drop in 2020 when justice programs have been snarled by the Covid-19 pandemic.
Source: www.anews.com.tr
