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Intentional homicide is defined by the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) in its Global Study on Homicide report [3] thus: . Within the broad range of violent deaths, the core element of intentional homicide is the complete liability of the direct perpetrator, which thus excludes killings directly related to war or conflicts, self-inflicted death (suicide), killings due to legal ...
In Caribbean countries, the death penalty exists at least de jure, except in the Dominican Republic and Haiti, which abolished it in 1969 and 1987, respectively. Grenada is abolitionist in practice; its last execution was in 1978. The last execution in the Caribbean was in Saint Kitts and Nevis, in 2008.
The countries with the most homicides per unit population are generally countries with small populations (very narrow rectangles in chart, 2021). [1] The list of countries by homicide rate is derived from United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) data, and is expressed in number of deaths per 100,000 population per year. For example, a ...
18 documented executions with credible information about 12 other cases [21] Lesotho: Africa 19 2,233,000 63.8 2017/8 Data from 16 months, rate divided accordingly. [22] Burkina Faso: Africa 116 19,190,000 60.4 2018/9 From September 2018 to February 2019 [23] Saint Lucia: Americas 1 1 0 0 0 178,844 56.2 2019 [24] Democratic Republic of the Congo
International humanitarian law prohibits the execution of prisoners of war and the wounded, and regards it as a war crime. UN body reports 'alarming rise' in Russian execution of captured ...
Homicide rates (from firearms) per 100,000 people by country. [1]This is a list of countries by firearm-related homicide rate per 100,000 population by year.. Homicide figures may include justifiable homicides along with criminal homicides, depending upon jurisdiction and reporting standards.
The population growth rate estimates (according to the United Nations Population Prospects 2019) between 2015 and 2020 [6] The 20 countries in the world in which the population has declined between 2010 and 2015