Several of those cases involved prisoners in terrorism-related crimes, who according to the United Nations human rights experts, faced trials that were unjust.
With at least 27 executions, Saudi Arabia was considered the fifth top global executioner in , according to the report. Despite this, the number of recorded executions in Saudi Arabia fell by 85 percent from in In a huge setback, the US became the only country in the Americas to carry out executions in after the Trump administration carried out the first federal execution in 17 years in July Additionally, Amnesty recorded several executions that violated international law including one public execution and three people executed for crimes that occurred below the age of 18 in Iran.
In violation of international law, people with mental or intellectual disabilities were also put to death in countries including the US, Japan, the Maldives and Pakistan, said the report. Meanwhile, many counties are believed to have imposed death sentences following proceedings that did not meet international standards for fair trials in Bahrain, Bangladesh, Egypt and Singapore among others.
The total number of known global executions in was at least , said the report, which marked the lowest number of executions recorded by Amnesty in at least 10 years. The figure represented a percent decrease in the number of executions compared with and a percent fall from 1, global executions in This drop was primarily linked to reductions in Iraq and Saudi Arabia, according to the report.
At the same time, at 1, the report recorded a percent decline in newly imposed death sentences in globally, compared with the previous year. Firing squads and lethal injections are two favourite methods of execution used by China. Eleven prisoners who were later executed during a sentencing rally in Wenzhou, China on April 7, Chinese officers carry a convicted pirate to court for an appeal trial in Shanwai, China on January 28, South China Morning Post via Getty Images One of the only victims named as an example was Mafia kingpin Liu Yong, who was given a lethal injection after being tried for wilfully causing harm to others, despite claims his confession was extracted under torture.
What happened to Lai Xiaomin? Lai Xiaomin has become the latest high profile execution in China. Lai was convicted for bigamy and corruption. Death sentences for white-collar crime are part and parcel of the Chinese justice system. Beijing is taking an increasingly tough stance on corporate wrongdoing as the Communist Party endorsed the use of the death penalty for Lai.
We don't have money. We can't afford to compensate. It's impossible," she said. Besides these legal questions, death penalty opponents contend that the government's propaganda seeks to convince people that killing is appropriate in certain circumstances.
Six decades of Communist rule have inculcated the idea that an individual life can be sacrificed for the greater good, a belief exemplified by the one-child policy. There's also a sense, reinforced through propaganda, that killing "bad people" is inherently just. In March, national television ran live footage of the run-up to the execution of four foreign nationals convicted of murdering 13 Chinese sailors on the Mekong River, an event that received international media attention.
Shortly after the execution, Hu Xijin, the editor of the nationalistic state-run newspaper Global Times , declared to his 3. These efforts appear to be working. A survey of respondents in Beijing, Hubei and Guangdong conducted in by the Max Planck Institute revealed that almost 60 percent supported the death penalty. Unsurprisingly, capital punishment provides great legitimacy to the Communist Party, which claims to be satisfying popular sentiment and public indignation when it executes corrupt officials.
China is one of the very few countries that has the death penalty for economic crime and has shown little mercy with disgraced government officials. And, in a country in which free speech isn't guaranteed, the public hears few arguments against the death penalty in the national media.
Chinese opponents of the death penalty know they face a daunting environment. Only an extremely small minority knows about it," said Beijing-based human rights lawyer Li Heping. They have not thought about this issue in depth.
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