Amnesty International: Death penalty in 2018: Facts and figures

[Nityam]

Ok, see , you said something and now you regreted, fine, I just proved my point, you are a liar, I m happy now.

Meanwhile I am still waiting for that missing law that prevents china from harvesting its prisoners organs.

Whatever makes you happy.

 

[beijingwalker]

Meanwhile I am still waiting for that missing law that prevents china from harvesting its prisoners organs.

Whatever makes you happy.

So the BET is still on or not?

 

[OIO]

https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2019/04/death-penalty-facts-and-figures-2018/

Global death penalty figures
Amnesty International recorded at least 690 executions in 20 countries in 2018, a decrease of 31% compared to 2017 (at least 993). This figure represents the lowest number of executions that Amnesty International has recorded in the past decade.

Most executions took place in China, Iran, Saudi Arabia, Viet Nam and Iraq – in that order.

China remained the world’s leading 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; the global figure of at least 690 excludes the thousands of executions believed to have been carried out in China.

The authorities of Viet Nam indicated in November that 85 executions had been carried out during 2018, placing the country among the world’s top five executioners.

Excluding China, 78% of all reported executions took place in just four countries – Iran, Saudi Arabia, Viet Nam and Iraq.

Botswana, Sudan, Taiwan and Thailand all resumed executions last year. Amnesty International did not report any executions in Bahrain, Bangladesh, Jordan, Kuwait, Malaysia, Palestine (State of) and United Arab Emirates (UAE), despite having done so in 2017.

Executions in Iran dropped from at least 507 in 2017 to at least 253 in 2018 – a decrease of 50%. Executions in Iraq decreased from at least 125 in 2017 to at least 52 in 2018, while in Pakistan, executions fell from at least 60 in 2017 to at least 14 in 2018. Somalia halved its executions, down from 24 in 2017 to 13 in 2018.

Burkina Faso abolished the death penalty in its new penal code in June. In February and July respectively, Gambia and Malaysia both declared an official moratorium on executions. In the US, the death penalty statute in the state of Washington was declared unconstitutional in October.

At the end of 2018, 106 countries (a majority of the world’s states) had abolished the death penalty in law for all crimes, and 142 countries (more than two-thirds) had abolished the death penalty in law or practice.

Amnesty International recorded commutations or pardons of death sentences in 29 countries: Afghanistan, Bahrain, Bangladesh, Barbados, Benin, Botswana, China, Egypt, Guyana, India, Iran, Kuwait, Malawi, Malaysia, Maldives, Morocco/Western Sahara, Myanmar, Nigeria, Pakistan, Papua New Guinea, Qatar, Saint Kitts and Nevis, South Korea, South Sudan, Sudan, Tanzania, UAE, USA and Zimbabwe.

Eight exonerations of prisoners under sentence of death were recorded in four countries: Egypt, Kuwait, Malawi and USA.

Amnesty International recorded at least 2,531 death sentences in 54 countries, a slight decrease from the total of 2,591 reported in 2017.

At least 19,336 people were known to be under sentence of death globally at the end of 2018.

The following methods of execution were used across the world in 2018: beheading, electrocution, hanging, lethal injection and shooting. Two new death sentences by stoning were known to have been imposed in Iran.

Reports from 2018 indicated seven people were executed in Iran for crimes committed when they were younger than 18 years of age.

At least 98 executions were known to have been carried out for drug-related offences in 4 countries – 14% of the global total and down from 28% in 2017. At least 226 of such death sentences were known to have been imposed in 14 countries.

Death sentences were known to have been imposed after proceedings that did not meet international fair trial standards in countries including Bangladesh, Belarus, China, Egypt, Iran, Iraq, Malaysia, North Korea, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, Singapore and Viet Nam.

Regional death penalty analysis
Americas
For the 10th consecutive year, the USA remained the only country to carry out executions in the region.

The number of executions (25) and death sentences (45) reported in the US slightly increased compared to 2017.

The state of Texas nearly doubled its figure compared to 2017 (from 7 to 13), accounting for just over half of the country’s total. Nebraska carried out its first execution since 1997; South Dakota since 2012; and Tennessee since 2009.

Only two countries, USA and Guyana, imposed death sentences – the lowest recorded number since Amnesty International began keeping records in 1979.

The death penalty statute in the US state of Washington was declared unconstitutional in October.

Asia-Pacific
At least 136 executions in nine countries were known to have been carried out throughout the region in 2018, compared to at least 93 in 2017. This increase was mostly due to the rare disclosure of a figure from the authorities of Viet Nam. It does not include the thousands of executions that Amnesty International believed were carried out in China.

Thailand resumed executions for the first time since 2009.

Japan more than tripled its annual figure (from 4 to 15), after the hanging of 13 men involved in a high-profile case, which saw a deadly Sarin chemical attack on the Tokyo underground in 1995.

Singapore reported 13 executions, the first time since 2003 that its execution total reached a double-digit figure.

Pakistan reported a drop of 77% drop in executions, from 60 in 2017 to at least 14 in 2018.

Malaysia announced a moratorium on executions and a review of its death penalty laws.

At least 1,100 new death sentences across 17 countries were known to have been imposed, a slight increase from the total of 1,037 recorded the previous year.

Europe and Central Asia
At least four executions were recorded in Belarus in 2018, compared to two in 2017. The last time another country in the region carried out executions was in 2005.

Kazakhstan, the Russian Federation and Tajikistan continued to observe moratoriums on executions.

Middle East and North Africa
The number of executions recorded by Amnesty International in the Middle East and North Africa region dropped by 41%, from 847 in 2017 to 501 in 2018, the lowest number of executions recorded in the region.

Five countries – Egypt, Iran, Iraq, Saudi Arabia and Yemen – were known to have carried out executions, a 50% drop in executing countries.

Iran, Saudi Arabia and Iraq remained the top executing countries in the region, carrying out at least 454 recorded executions between them, 91% of the total number in the whole of the region.

There were 1,170 recorded death sentences in 2018, marking an 89% increase compared to 2017, when 619 death sentences were recorded. Egypt imposed the highest number of confirmed death sentences in the region with at least 717 people sentenced to death compared to at least 402 in 2017.

Sub-Saharan Africa
Four countries – Botswana, Somalia, South Sudan and Sudan – carried out executions in 2018.

A drop in recorded executions in Somalia drove an overall decrease in the region, from 28 in 2017 to 24 in 2018, despite an alarming increase in executions in South Sudan.

Recorded death sentences reduced from at least 878 in 2017 to at least 212 in 2018.

The number of countries that imposed death sentences increased to 17 from 15 recorded in 2017.

Burkina Faso abolished the death penalty for ordinary crimes only, and Gambia established a moratorium on executions and ratified an international treaty committing it to abolishing the death penalty.

China will not abolish death penalty.
especially the drug dealers.

 

[Imad.Khan]

LOL.... why are you so defensive when I am quoting Facts ?

If you are proud of your chinese govt. then there is no need to compare it with India, is there ?

You are aware that The Chinese government approved a regulation in 1984 to allow the removal of organs from executed criminals, Right ?

Fact is something thats proven. Has your statement been proven? if it has please share it with everyone.

US is the world champion, you shoot people dead directly on the street.


US police shoot almost 1,000 people dead every year, figures show
Protests, heightened public awareness, reforms and increased officer training have little effect on annual total
Wednesday 13 February 2019 13:44

Last year police shot and killed 998 people, 11 more than the 987 they fatally shot in 2017 ( Getty )
Fatal shootings by police are the rare outcomes of the millions of encounters between police officers and the public. Despite the unpredictable events that lead to the shootings, in each of the past four years police nationwide have shot and killed almost the same number of people - nearly 1,000.

Last year police shot and killed 998 people, 11 more than the 987 they fatally shot in 2017. In 2016, police killed 963 people, and 995 in 2015.

Years of controversial police shootings, protests, heightened public awareness, local police reforms and increased officer training have had little effect on the annual total. Everyone agrees - criminal justice researchers, academics and statisticians - that all of the attention has not been enough to move the number.

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/...death-toll-gun-control-officers-a8777046.html

Lol, i was going to share the same thing.

 

[Nityam]

So the BET is still on or not?

Are you still looking to monetize it like the organ transplant by your govt. ?

Meanwhile we are still waiting for the proof of your claim.

Fact is something thats proven. Has your statement been proven? if it has please share it with everyone.

You mean like the "re-education" camps for muslim ?

Do you have proof of that ? or is it "western propaganda" ?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Organ_transplantation_in_China

 

[Imad.Khan]

Are you still looking to monetize it like the organ transplant by your govt. ?

Meanwhile we are still waiting for the proof of your claim.



You mean like the "re-education" camps for muslim ?

Do you have proof of that ? or is it "western propaganda" ?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Organ_transplantation_in_China

If your knowledge source is Wikipedia, then that explains alot. please do proper research before entering any discussion, will save us all alot of headaches.

 

[Nityam]

If your knowledge source is Wikipedia, then that explains alot. please do proper research before entering any discussion, will save us all alot of headaches.

How about you "google" it ?

https://www.bmj.com/content/363/bmj.k5250

https://theconversation.com/whose-h...-must-be-clear-in-human-organ-research-108077

https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-nightmare-of-human-organ-harvesting-in-china-11549411056


Plenty more where that came from.

 

[beijingwalker]

How about you "google" it ?

https://www.bmj.com/content/363/bmj.k5250

https://theconversation.com/whose-h...-must-be-clear-in-human-organ-research-108077

https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-nightmare-of-human-organ-harvesting-in-china-11549411056


Plenty more where that came from.

China banned organ harvest by law which you said doesn't exist and wanted to bet , is your bet still on?

 

[Nityam]

China banned organ harvest by law which you said doesn't exist and wanted to bet , is your bet still on?

You seem more interested in the bet than proving there is a law that over rules the law passed in 1984 that makes it legal to harvest organs of prisoners in china.

 

[Imad.Khan]

How about you "google" it ?

https://www.bmj.com/content/363/bmj.k5250

https://theconversation.com/whose-h...-must-be-clear-in-human-organ-research-108077

https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-nightmare-of-human-organ-harvesting-in-china-11549411056


Plenty more where that came from.

Let me quote your fact

Not sure why you are so excited.

The report OP sited EXCLUDES china.


Apparently China executes MORE people that REST OF THE WORLD COMBINED.

That is a LOT of organs for organ transplants for chinese elites and their relatives.

none of those links provide any proof of your statement that China executes more than the rest of the world combined

As for the organ donation statement

Link 1

Forced harvesting of organs from prisoners of conscience in China has been “substantial,” says an interim judgment of an independent “people’s tribunal” set up to determine whether the country’s transplantation practices breached international criminal law.

The former English judge Geoffrey Nice QC, the tribunal’s chair, said after a three day evidence gathering session, “We, the tribunal members, are all certain, unanimously, beyond reasonable doubt, that in China forced organ harvesting from prisoners of conscience has been practised for a substantial period of time, involving a very substantial number of victims . . . by state organised or approved organisations or individuals.”

No numbers have been provided, just a statement that forced organ donation has been taking place for years.

Link 2

Where do the organs come from?
In 19 papers involving 2,688 organs transplanted prior to 2010, the source of organs was reported as voluntary donors. But as widely known in the transplantation community, there was no volunteer deceased organ donor program in China before a pilot started in 2010. It therefore seems reasonable to assume that organs may have been sourced from prisoners, making claims about volunteer donation unreliable.

Atleast here they accept that they are only assuming and don't have any proof.

Link 3

China stands accused of a gruesome trade in human organs. It’s difficult to prove, because the victims’ bodies are disposed of and the only witnesses are the doctors, police and prison guards involved. Even so, the evidence supports a damning verdict.

Again in this link it says China is accused and they don't have any proof.

So again what ever you have said so far is not a fact as nothing is proven, its just an assumption, just like how the world assumes that India is the rape capital of the world but its an assumption and not a fact.

Hope this makes sense.

 

[Nityam]

Let me quote your fact

none of those links provide any proof of your statement that China executes more than the rest of the world combined

As for the organ donation statement

Link 1

No numbers have been provided, just a statement that forced organ donation has been taking place for years.

Link 2

Atleast here they accept that they are only assuming and don't have any proof.

Link 3

Again in this link it says China is accused and they don't have any proof.

So again what ever you have said so far is not a fact as nothing is proven, its just an assumption, just like how the world assumes that India is the rape capital of the world but its an assumption and not a fact.

Hope this makes sense.

LOL......... Denial is not a river in Egypt.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2...d-worlds-top-executioner-as-global-rate-falls

China named 'world’s top executioner' as global rate falls

Amnesty says more people executed in China than rest of world combined but sub-Saharan Africa is a ‘beacon of hope’

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/ar...adavers-come-Chinese-political-prisoners.html

Exhibition is accused of using the corpses of executed Chinese political prisoners in its shocking 'Real Bodies' display

 

[beijingwalker]

You seem more interested in the bet than proving there is a law that over rules the law passed in 1984 that makes it legal to harvest organs of prisoners in china.

'In May 2007 the Regulation on Human Organ Transplantation came into force, banning organ trading and the removal of a person's organs without their prior written consent,and this has been favourably received by the World Health Organization and The Transplantation Society'
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That's the Chinese law which you said doesn't exist and wanted to bet if it does, now what...?

You liar, I was there visited this exhibition in 北京自然博物馆 Beijing natural science musem, it's a German team organized exhibition with German technology 塑化肌肉 plasticized musles

 

[Foggy_Bottom]

New Report: Organ Transplant Abuse in China Continues Despite Claims of Reform

report details here

 

[Nityam]

'In May 2007 the Regulation on Human Organ Transplantation came into force, banning organ trading and the removal of a person's organs without their prior written consent,and this has been favourably received by the World Health Organization and The Transplantation Society'
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That's the Chinese law which you said doesn't exist and wanted to bet if it does, now what...?

LOL..... poor attempt.

This just means the OLD law is still valid since that too required the "prisoners consent" to take his organ. As if he had a choice. lol.

You liar, I was there visited this exhibition in 北京自然博物馆 Beijing natural science musem, it's a German team organized exhibition with German technology 塑化肌肉 plasticized musles

Take you complaint to Daily Mail. I am quoting them.

 

[beijingwalker]

This just means the OLD law is still valid since that too required the "prisoners consent" to take his organ. As if he had a choice. lol.

.

But your bet is they don't exist, now you want to eat your words?

Take you complaint to Daily Mail. I am quoting them.

Western media is a habitual liar and they started Iraqi war based on a lie, you are just as a liar as they are by spreading their lies.