State-sanctioned killings see a 'worrying' 20% global increase with China, Iran, and Saudi Arabia leading as 'the world's most prolific executioners:' report

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

45% : Callamard believes that Iran's, Egypt's, and Saudi Arabia's appetites "for putting the executioner to work has also shown no sign of abating in the early months of 2022." "Instead of building on the opportunities presented by hiatuses in 2020, a minority of states demonstrated a troubling enthusiasm to choose the death penalty over effective solutions to crime, showing a callous disregard for the right to life even amid urgent and ongoing global human rights crises," Callamard added.
44% : Despite several countries making efforts to "shroud their use of the death penalty behind layers of secrecy," Agnès Callamard, Amnesty International's Secretary General, believes that even the number of known killings is "cause for great alarm," she said in a press release.
41% : "The minority of countries that still retain the death penalty are on notice: a world without state-sanctioned killing is not only imaginable, it is within reach and we will continue to fight for it," said Callamard.
37% : Amnesty International denounces the death penalty in all cases and believes it to be a human rights abuse primarily impacting minorities and marginalized communities.
37% : The organization cited Mehran Naru'i, a man of the Baluchi ethnic minority in Iran, who was executed in May 2021.
35% : Excluding China, North Korea, and Vietnam's secret killings, Iran, Egypt, and Saudi Arabia made up approximately 80% of global executions last year.
27% : Other prisoners in Iran have made similar accusations.

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