Don’t rejoice yet
BY ONE MEASURE, at least, the world might be getting a bit less grisly. The number of death sentences carried out worldwide fell by 30%, from 993 in 2017 to 690 last year, according to the latest annual count published by Amnesty International, a human-rights organisation. Those numbers are consistent with the downward trend since a recent high in 2015, when 1,634 people were executed.
A reason to rejoice? Perhaps not. Amnesty’s count includes only known executions, so should be treated as the lowest possible estimate of judicial killings. China, which is considered the most ruthless country when it comes to capital punishment, has not been included in the total since 2009. Executions there are thought to be in the thousands.Belarus and Vietnam classify executions as a state secret.
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