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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.
Death Penalty Worldwide: Archived 2013-11-13 at the Wayback Machine Academic research database on the laws, practice, and statistics of capital punishment for every death penalty country in the world. Smile of death: China History Punishment
The following are the five states with the most executions since the early 1980s, according to the Death Penalty Information Center: Texas, 591. Oklahoma, 126. Virginia, 113. Florida, 106 ...
Death penalty opponents regard the death penalty as inhumane [207] and criticize it for its irreversibility. [208] They argue also that capital punishment lacks deterrent effect, [ 209 ] [ 210 ] [ 211 ] or has a brutalization effect, [ 212 ] [ 213 ] discriminates against minorities and the poor, and that it encourages a "culture of violence ...
Amnesty International's Interim Deputy Director for the Middle East and North Africa, Rawya Rageh, criticized Kuwait's execution of five individuals, including one for a drug-related offense, as a return to executions with "vigour," urging the establishment of a moratorium on executions towards abolishing the death penalty.
The rope did not break his neck, and he died from strangulation after hanging for 12 minutes. [10] Pieter Jan Geurts (1858) - Hanging. Witnesses reported Geurts struggling for several minutes after falling through the trapdoor. James Stephens (1860) – Hanging by upright jerker. He contorted and gurgled before asphyxiating to death. [11]
At Italy's instigation, a resolution for a moratorium on the death penalty was presented by the European Union in partnership with eight co-author member States to the General Assembly of the United Nations, calling for general suspension (not abolition) of capital punishment throughout the world.