Abolished for all offenses except under special circumstances (9)
 Abolished for all offenses (96)
Abolished for all offenses except under special circumstances (9)
Retains, though not used for at least 10 years (34)
Retains death penalty (58)
Capital punishment, the death penalty, or execution is the sentence of death upon a person by the state as a punishment for an offence.
Types of death penalty:
· shooting
· hanging
· decapitation
· gas chamber
· electric chair
· lethal injection
Rank
Country
Number executed in 2010
per 10M
1 
People's Republic of China
Officially not released. In the thousands, may be up to 5000.
37.3 or less
2 
Iran
252+
33.5+
3 
North Korea
60+
24.9+
4 
Yemen
53+
22.5+
5 
United States
1.5
6 
Saudi Arabia
27+
9.9+
7 
Libya
18+
27.3+
8 
Syria
17+
7.6+
9 
Bangladesh
9+
0.6+
10 
Somalia
8+
8.5+
11 
Sudan
6+
1.9+
12 
Palestinian Authority
12.7
13 
Egypt
0.5
14 
Equatorial Guinea
59.2
15 
Taiwan
1.7
16 
Belarus
2.1
17 
Japan
0.2
18 
Iraq
1+
0.3+
19 
Malaysia
1+
0.4+
20 
Bahrain
8.1
21 
Botswana
4.9
22 
Singapore
unknown
unknown
23 
Vietnam
unknown
unknown
Execution for drug-related offences
 Afghanistan
Bangladesh
 Brunei
People's Republic of China
Republic of China Also available on Chinese Wikisource
Egypt
 Indonesia
Iran
Iraq
 Kuwait
 Laos
Malaysia
 Oman
 Pakistan
Saudi Arabia
Singapore
Somalia
 Sri Lanka
 Thailand
Vietnam
 United Arab Emirates
United States
 Zimbabwe
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