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Death Sentences and Executions 2010

By Steve Hall

Amnesty International has released its report Death Sentences and Executions 2010.  It's available in Adobe .pdf.  Additional graphics are also available. "Amnesty: After hitting record low, number of countries executing convicts has inched back up," is the AP post, via the Washington Post. The number of countries executing convicts rose to 23 in 2010, four more than the previous year, Amnesty International said in a report published Monday. The year 2009 saw the lowest number of countries impose the death penalty since the 50-year-old rights organization began keeping statistics. Despite the rise in 2010, the London-based group said momentum is still with those who are seeking to outlaw the practice, which it argues is cruel and degrading...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on March 28, 2011 (boomark / email).