Death Penalty: 883 Executions Held In 2022, Says Amnesty International. - Liberty TV/Radio - News - Voice For All! Vision For Alll!
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May 17, 2023
The human rights organisation, in a report on the worldwide use of the death penalty, documented at least 883 executions in 20 countries for 2022, the highest figure in five years.
The number was likely higher, it noted, as thousands of executions in China are being kept under wraps.
State secrecy in North Korea and Vietnam, along with limited access to information in several other countries, continued to hinder a fuller assessment of the use of the death penalty, the report said.
Amnesty said 90 per cent of the world’s known executions in 2022 were carried out by just three countries, namely: Iran, Saudi Arabia, and Egypt.
The number of recorded executions in Iran rose from 314 in 2021 to 576 in 2022, it said.
In Saudi Arabia, the number tripled from 65 in 2021 to 196 last year – the highest figure recorded by Amnesty for the country in 30 years.