Death Penalty Statistics 2010 - Amnesty International

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At the end of 2010 the global trend towards abolition of the death penalty could not have been clearer. While in the mid-1990s 40 countries on average were known to carry out executions each year, during the first years of this century executions were reported in 30 countries on average. Most recently, 25 countries reportedly executed prisoners in 2008 while 19 countries - the lowest number ever recorded by Amnesty International - did so in 2009. In 2010, 23 countries were known to have carried out executions. The number of countries that are abolitionist in law or practice has substantially increased over the past decade, rising from 108 in 2001 to 139 in recent years.

One more country, Gabon removed the death penalty from its legislation in 2010 and at the end of year bills abolishing the death penalty were pending in the parliaments of Lebanon, Mali, Mongolia, South Korea.

http://www.amnestyusa.org/our-work/issues/death-penalty/international-death-penalty/death-penalty-statistics-2010