According to Amnesty International, some Middle Eastern states increased their use of the death sentence in 2022, resulting in the largest number of executions worldwide in the previous five years.
According to the group’s yearly evaluation, a total of 883 persons are reported to have been executed across 20 nations, an increase of 53% from 2021.
90 percent of those executions were carried out by Iran, Saudi Arabia, and Egypt alone.
China, which is believed to kill thousands of people a year, is not included in the statistics.
As a result of China’s classification of data on the death sentence, Amnesty International claimed it was difficult to determine how many people there had been executed.
The committee was also able to confirm that executions had taken place in Afghanistan, Syria, North Korea, and Vietnam, but there was insufficient data to offer reliable minimum numbers.
Iran and Saudi Arabia were mostly to blame for the dramatic rise in documented executions globally last year, according to a report by Amnesty International.
