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Sierra Leone abolished the death penalty: 17:51, 11 June 2018: 940 × 477 (1.35 MB) Forthrunner: Update according to Amnesty International: 20:36, 16 October 2016: 940 × 477 (1.36 MB) Turnless: The death penalty was never abolished by the constitutional court of Russia. They only extended the moratorium. 04:52, 8 August 2016: 940 × 477 (1.36 ...
China is the world's most active user of the death penalty; according to Amnesty International, China executes more people than the rest of the world combined, each year; [22] but the death penalty for all crimes do not apply to the two special administrative regions, Hong Kong and Macau.
Capital punishment is retained in law by 55 UN member states or observer states, with 140 having abolished it in law or in practice.The most recent legal executions performed by nations and other entities with criminal law jurisdiction over the people present within its boundaries are listed below.
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English: Current map of capital punishment status in the world, noting the most recent change in Zimbabwe (2024) Maintain the death penalty in both law and practice Abolished in practice (no execution in over 10 years and under a moratorium)
By the end of 2022, more than two-thirds of the world’s nations had done away with the practice, according to the Washington, DC-based Death Penalty Information Center.
Since reaching historic highs in the late 1990s and early 2000s, use of the death penalty in America has steadily declined, with a dwindling number of jurisdictions responsible for a growing ...