The number of people put to death worldwide spiked by 30% in 2023, making it the deadliest year in nearly a decade ... U.S. had the fourth highest number of recorded executions after putting ...

Amnesty found that Iran executed 853 people in 2023, the highest number recorded since 2015, and that more than half of those executions were ... referring darkly to a decade when as many as ...

(Mainichi/Kenta Oka) LONDON (Kyodo) -- Over 1,500 executions were confirmed across 15 countries in 2024, hitting the highest level since ... figures increasing from 2023 to 972, 345 and 63 ...

The number of state-ordered executions worldwide surged to the highest level in nearly a decade last year ... and an increase of almost a third on 2023 figures, the report states.

Executions in Iran reached their highest level since 2015, with at least 972 recorded in 2024, according to Amnesty International. The surge helped drive a global increase in capital punishment ...

The use of the death penalty rose to its highest level in nearly a decade in 2023 ... The 853 executions confirmed by Amnesty in Iran in 2023 represents a nearly 50-per-cent increase over 2022 ...