Global News

As the article says, it's a tragedy an shame for our human race that something like that still exists in the 21st century. According to the 2023 data, the most recent available, the world's leading executioner is China as per Amnesty.

Amnesty International record­ed at least 1,153 exe­cu­tions in 16 coun­tries – a 31% increase from the 883 exe­cu­tions in 20 coun­tries in 2022 – mark­ing the high­est total since 2015 but the low­est num­ber of exe­cut­ing coun­tries on record with the orga­ni­za­tion. As in pre­vi­ous years, exe­cu­tion totals do not include the esti­mat­ed thou­sands of exe­cu­tions car­ried out by the world’s lead­ing exe­cu­tion­er, China, where exe­cu­tion data is con­sid­ered a state secret; secre­cy prac­tices and chal­lenges access­ing infor­ma­tion in Afghanistan, North Korea, Palestine, Syria, and Vietnam also cre­at­ed dif­fi­cul­ties in iden­ti­fy­ing min­i­mum totals.