Amnesty International says the number of executions recorded worldwide last year jumped to the highest level since 2015. The rights group said in a report released Wednesday that it recorded a total of 1,153 executions in 2023 — a 30% increase from 2022.
FILE - This photo provided by the South Carolina Department of Corrections shows the state’s death chamber in Columbia, S.C., including the electric chair, right, and a firing squad chair, left. Amnesty International says the number of executions recorded worldwide last year jumped to the highest level since 2015. The rights group said in a new report it recorded a total of 1,153 executions in 2023 — a 30% increase from 2022.
The human rights group said it recorded a total of 1,153 executions in 2023, a 30% increase from 2022. Amnesty said the figure does not include thousands of death sentences believed to have been carried out in China, where data is not available due to state secrecy.
“The Iranian authorities showed complete disregard for human life and ramped up executions for drug-related offences, further highlighting the discriminatory impact of the death penalty on Iran’s most marginalized and impoverished communities,” Agnès Callamard, Amnesty’s secretary general, said in a statement.
Callamard said progress faltered in the U.S., where executions rose from 18 to 24 and a number of states “demonstrated a chilling commitment to the death penalty and a callous intent to invest resources in the taking of human life.”Amnesty said that despite the setbacks, there was progress because the number of countries that carried out executions dropped to 16, the lowest on record since the group began monitoring.
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