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In 2024, the ten countries that are known (my add, North Korea and Viet Nam have also executed people extensively, but there is no verified data for either, and adding them in still does not remove the US from the top 10) to have executed the most people were, in descending order, China (1,000+), Iran (972+), Saudi Arabia (345+), Iraq (63+), Yemen (38+), Somalia (34+), The United States (25), Egypt (13), Singapore (9), and Kuwait (6).
What a horrid list for the US to be on!
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In 2024, the ten countries that are known (my add, North Korea and Viet Nam have also executed people extensively, but there is no verified data for either, and adding them in still does not remove the US from the top 10) to have executed the most people were, in descending order, China (1,000+), Iran (972+), Saudi Arabia (345+), Iraq (63+), Yemen (38+), Somalia (34+), The United States (25), Egypt (13), Singapore (9), and Kuwait (6).
What a horrid list for the US to be on!
This report covers the judicial use of the death penalty for the period January to December 2024. Amnesty International’s monitoring shows an increase by 32% in recorded executions compared to 2023. This does not include the thousands of people believed to have been executed in China, as well as in North Korea and Viet Nam, also believed to have resorted to executions extensively. For the second consecutive year, executing countries reached the lowest number on record.
https://www.amnesty.org/en/documents/act50/8976/2025/en/
https://www.amnesty.org/en/documents/act50/8976/2025/en/
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