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Official data isnt available out of China where death penalty statistics are a state secret but the human rights organisation Amnesty International estimates it carried out thousands of. Even in Western Europe that collection of governments most opposed to capital punishment their citizens actually do support the death penalty.

Death Penalty How Many Countries Still Have It Bbc News

AAP April 29 2015 1244pm COUNTRIES THAT HAVE ABOLISHED THE DEATH PENALTY More than 100 countries have abolished the death penalty for.

Countries that allow the death penalty. Countries that have the death penalty include. Afghanistan Antigua and Barbuda Bahamas Bahrain Bangladesh Barbados Belarus Belize Botswana Chad China Comoros Cuba Democratic Republic of the Congo Dominica Egypt Equatorial Guinea Ethiopia Guyana India Indonesia Iran Iraq Japan Jamaica Jordan Kuwait. Globally of the 195.

As of 2020 a total of 53 countries still have the death sentence employing a variety of methods including hanging shooting lethal injection electrocution and beheading. At least 6 of these implement the death penalty Iran Northern Nigeria Saudi Arabia Somalia and Yemen and the death penalty is a legal possibility in Afghanistan Brunei Mauritania Pakistan Qatar and. A TOTAL of 58 nations including the US Saudi Arabia Japan Vietnam Zimbabwe and China still enforce the death penalty.

The United States the Peoples Republic of China Japan Indonesia and Iran are examples of. Most Muslims support the death penalty because Islam as a religion supports the existence of a death penalty and because most countries with a majority-Muslim population have never had a large. The fourteen countries that have legalized and retained the right to execute criminals for their crimes include.

Going by the data on the table it is clear that the practice is still very much in effect with nine countries having executions in 2018. 36 rows PHILIPPINES abolished the death penalty for all crimes. About one third of the countries in the world have laws that allow the death penalty.

Aside from the US there is Sudan Syria Saudi Arabia Pakistan Iran Egypt Angola and Afghanistan. From the French daily Le Monde December 2006 1. 47 rows The following is a summary of the use of capital punishment by country.

Globally 33 countries have legislation which allows the death sentence for drug trafficking. Percentage of respondents in favor of executing Saddam Hussein. 59 rows As per current data there are 58 countries around the world that still use death.

104 countries have the death penalty 93 dont. Which countries have the death penalty. China remains the worlds top executioner but the true extent of the use of the death penalty in China is unknown as this data is classified as a state secret.

Capital punishment is a legal penalty in Pakistan. The global figure of at least 483 recorded in 2020 excludes the thousands of executions believed to have been carried out in China. Official data isnt available out of China where death penalty statistics are a state secret but the human rights organisation Amnesty International estimates it carried out thousands of.

Whether or not you agree with the death penalty as a consequence of serious criminal activity capital punishment remains legal in fourteen countries worldwide. According to Harm Reduction International among places which have the death penalty for drug.