The Death Penalty in 2024: International | Death Penalty Information Center
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China is wide­ly regard­ed as the world’s lead­ing exe­cu­tion­er with thou­sands esti­mat­ed to be exe­cut­ed annu­al­ly, but infor­ma­tion sur­round­ing exe­cu­tions is con­sid­ered a state secret.

  • technocrit@lemmy.dbzer0.comOPEnglish
    95·
    3 months ago

    Can anybody out there find the per capita statistics? There’s soooo much imperial propaganda on these searches but not much actual data.

    edit: Here’s some rough numbers of these states doing the division manually (per million people):

    • 8.74 Iran
    • 8 Saudi Arabia
    • 2 Iraq
    • 1.33 North Korea (approx)
    • 0.07 United States
    • ??? China

    Ofc there might be countries with higher per capita rates, but it’s hidden behind a flood of propaganda.

    • AbidanYre@lemmy.worldEnglish
      4·
      3 months ago

      The raw numbers are in your link and the population is probably on Wikipedia. Getting to the per capita numbers shouldn’t be that hard.

      • technocrit@lemmy.dbzer0.comOPEnglish
        26·
        3 months ago

        Yeah. I just added that to my comment. But this might not include other countries.

        I think the biggest tell is how imperial news constantly talks about Iran and NEVER talks about Saudi Arabia.

    • hsdkfr734r@feddit.nlEnglish
      3·
      3 months ago

      Europe: 0 (if you exclude Belarus)

      The deterrent effect of the death penalty isn’t proven. I don’t see positive effects if it doesn’t help to prevent crimes. (there are other measures which do work)

      I’m glad that it is that way here. I wouldn’t want to live in a country that threatens to kill its inhabitants.

      Edit: on second thought, my comment is off topic. Since the question was how many and not why. Sorry.