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According to the U.S.-based Dui Hua Foundation, the estimated number of executions has declined steadily in the twenty-first century, from 12,000 each year to 2,400. [12] However, in 2022 the World Coalition Against the Death Penalty announced that since 2007 at least 8,000 people per year were executed in China. [13]
China is the world's most active user of the death penalty; according to Amnesty International, China executes more people than the rest of the world combined, each year; [22] but the death penalty for all crimes do not apply to the two special administrative regions, Hong Kong and Macau.
Endangering national security is among the crime categories included in the 1997 revision of China's criminal code. [5] It comprises Articles 102 to 113 of the 1997 Criminal Law and imposes the confiscation of property as a supplementary penalty. [ 6 ]
The US carried out 24 death sentences last year with only China (1,000+ executions), Iran (853+), Saudi Arabia (172), and Somalia (38+) using the death penalty more often.
The number of executions in Saudi Arabia tripled from 65 in 2021 t. ... China, Iran, Saudi Arabia and Singapore carried out at least 325 executions in total for drug-related offenses, more than ...
China does not provide transparent information on the total number of executions, but the country is believed to be “the world’s top executioner” with thousands of people executed and ...
Last execution date Name Crime Method C Algeria: August 1993 [1] seven unnamed Islamic terrorists: terrorism: firing squad: A Angola: 1977 [2] Nito Alves and many of his supporters treason: firing squad: A Benin: 23 September 1987 [3] murder: A Bophuthatswana: 13 December 1990 [4] [5] Alpheus Sekoboane murder: hanging: D Botswana: 11 June 2021 ...
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