Amnesty: Almost 1,000 prisoners executed worldwide in 2017

Iran, Saudi Arabia, Iraq record highest executions, as rights group reports global decline in the use of death penalty.

by Saba Aziz

 

Amnesty International has expressed concern that the death penalty continues to be applied in some Middle Eastern countries, as it reported a worldwide decline in executions and death sentences in 2017.

 

In its annual report published on Thursday, the international rights group documented at least 993 executions in 23 countries last year - a four percent decline from 2016, when 1,032 executions were recorded.

 

From a record high of 3,117 in 2016, since Amnesty began documentation, 2,591 death sentences were imposed worldwide - a 17 percent decline.

 

Full story: https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2018/04/amnesty-1000-prisoners-executed-worldwide-2017-180411131143832.html

 

-- AL JAZEERA 2018-04-12

I'd like to see UK bring back capital punishment in certain circumstances including Terrorism and the killing of Police or emergency services.

Hooray,Hooray

It's up to each country to decide if they want the death penalty. What Amnesty thinks or wants is irrelevant. 

I have an intellectual aversion to the death penalty BUT if anybody harmed my Daughters or Granddaughters my emotional reaction would be totally opposite, they will die.

State sanctioned executions are part of some countries heritage and who are we to disagree.

Perhaps a little thought experiment will bring some clarity to this:

 

Imagine being arrested by the police in Thailand for allegedly committing a capital crime. 

 

You know you can be assured that in this society nobody would ever stoop to 'setting you up' and calling the police. 

 

You know the police are professional, diligent in their investigations and observant of the law and your rights to innocence. 

 

And thankfully even if, by some twist of fate, the police were unable to uncover the real culprit you can be assured that the courts will at least give you an absolutely fair trial, the truth of your innocence will be proven - you need never worry of being wrongly convicted.