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The National Law University Delhi compiled a list of persons executed in India since 1947 and found that at least 752 individuals had been executed, including the period from 1 January to 15 August 1947. Their report was compiled "as per responses received from Central prisons in India.
Currently, there are around 539 prisoners on death row in India. The most recent executions in India took place in March 2020, when four of the 2012 Delhi gang rape and murder perpetrators were executed at the Tihar Jail in Delhi.
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All 11of the recorded executions in 2021 took place in the USA. The rest of the Americas region remained execution-free for the 13th consecutive year. 25 new death sentences were handed down in three countries: USA, Guyana and Trinidad & Tobago. Virginia became the 23rd abolitionist state in the USA and first southern state to have abolished the de...
Amnesty International recorded executions in five countries—Bangladesh, China, Japan, North Korea and Viet Nam—the lowest number in more than two decades. At least 819new death sentences were handed down in 16 countries, a rise of 58% compared to 2020 (517), largely linked to increases in Bangladesh, India, Myanmar, Pakistan and Viet Nam. After a...
Amnesty International recorded one execution and one new death sentence, both in Belarus,which remains the only country in the region carrying out executions. Kazakhstansigned into law a bill abolishing the death penalty for all crimes. Armeniabecame a state party to a key international treaty on abolition of the death penalty. The Russian Federati...
520 executions were recorded in seven countries–Egypt, Iran, Iraq, Saudi Arabia, Syria, United Arab Emirates and Yemen – an increase of 19% on 2020. Recorded executions in Iraqmore than halved, from 45 to 17, though this may have been the result of a slowdown in the executive approvals of death sentences due to the political turmoil that the state ...
The number of executions, recorded in 3 countries, more than doubled to 33, as a result of rises in Somalia and South Sudan. The other country to carry out executions was Botswana. At least 373 new death sentences were handed down in 19 countries, an increase of 22%, due to sharp rises in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Mauritania, and des...
21 de abr. de 2021 · News. April 21, 2021. Death penalty in 2020: Facts and figures. Global figures. Amnesty International recorded 483 executions in 18 countries in 2020, a decrease of 26% from 657 recorded in 2019. This figure represents the lowest number of executions that Amnesty International has recorded in the past decade.
Amnesty International, which campaigns against the death penalty, says 690 executions were known to have taken place last year, a drop of more than 30% compared with 2017.
24 de abr. de 2021 · Updated 7:11 AM EDT, Sun April 25, 2021. Link Copied! Shabnam was sentenced to death for killing seven members of her family. Family Photo. New DelhiCNN — Neighbors woke to a woman’s cries for help...
Search. This is the eighth edition of the Death Penalty in India: Annual Statistics Report. This annual publication presents changes in the death row population as well as political and legal developments in the administration of the death penalty in India each year.
