More people were executed in 2024 than in any other year over the past decade, mainly reflecting a huge increase in executions in Iran, Iraq and Saudi Arabia, according to Amnesty International’s annual report on the use of the death penalty.
The human rights NGO said that although the number of countries carrying out executions was the lowest on record, it had confirmed 1,518 executions...
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