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Lots of data and a cool graphic concerning international use of the death penalty

By Douglas A. Berman

Amnesty International recently published death penalty information for all countries in the world, and the folks at The Guardian have assembled and summarized the information effectively in this piece.  The piece includes the cool graphic spotlighted here, and this text: Despite fewer countries executing prisoners than ever before, the death penalty is still alive and well around the world.  The latest statistics show that China executes thousands, said Amnesty International in its report on the death penalty worldwide.  Amnesty does not provide a precise figure of executions in China as Beijing keeps such figures secret. China, together with Iran, North Korea, Yemen and the US carried out the most executions last year, the report says: Whilst 67 countries handed down sentences in 2010, only 23 countries actually carried out executions -- just over a third The number of official executions reported fell from at least 714 people in 2009 to at least 527 in 2010, excluding China...continue to full post

Full post as published by Sentencing Law and Policy on March 29, 2011 (boomark / email).