USE OF CAPITAL PUNISHMENT BY NATION

At one time 'capital punishment' was used in almost every part of the globe, but over the last few decades many countries have abolished it. Amnesty International classifies countries into four categories.

★ 67 countries still maintain the death penalty in both law and practice.

★ 90 countries have abolished it completely.

★ 11 retain it, but only for crimes committed in exceptional circumstances (such as crimes committed in time of war).

★ 29 countries maintain laws permitting the use of the death penalty for ordinary crimes, but have allowed the death penalty to fall into disuse for at least 10 years.
It is not unknown, however, for countries to practice extrajudicial execution sporadically or systematically outside their own formal legal frameworks. This list includes several unrecognized states with de facto control over their territory.
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==Africa==
Executions in 2005: Libya (?), Somalia (?), Sudan (65)

#	Country	Last Execution	Abolished	Notes

==Asia==
Executions in 2006: Bahrain (?), People's Republic of China (1,010), Indonesia (?), Iran (177), Iraq (65), Japan (4), Pakistan (82), Singapore (?)

#	Country	Last Execution	Abolished	Notes

==Europe==
Executions in 2004: Belarus (5)

#	Country	Last Execution	Abolished	Notes

==North America and Caribbean==
Executions in 2006: United States (52)^[1]

#	Country	Last Execution	Abolished	Notes

==Oceania==
Executions in 2004: ''none''

#	Country	Last Execution	Abolished	Notes

==South America==
Executions in 2004: ''none''

#	Country	Last Execution	Abolished	Notes

References

1. http://www.deathpenaltyinfo.org/article.php?did=2154

External links

★ Amnesty International

★ The Death Penalty Worldwide

★ Countries retaining death penalty fail to give details of executions - United Nations, July 14, 2005

★ Death Penalty in Asia-Pacific