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The United States ranks among the top five countries in the world with the most executions in 2023, according to a new report from Amnesty International.. The US carried out 24 death sentences ...
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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 homicide rate of 30 out of 100,000 is presented in the table as "30", and corresponds to 0.03% of the population dying by homicide.
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
Death penalty for homosexuality, sodomy, [113] apostasy [114] (no recorded executions), blasphemy, [115] adultery, murder, aggravated murder, terrorism, torture, rape, armed robbery, attempted armed robbery, arson, accomplice to a death-eligible crime, assaulting a judge or public official in the course of his duties resulting in his death ...
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 this article, we present the 10 countries with the highest suicide rates in the world. Click to skip ahead and see the 5 countries with the highest suicide rates in the world. In the midst of ...
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.