Amnesty International

REPORTED EXECUTIONS IN 2012

Afghanistan (14), Bangladesh (1), Belarus (3+), Botswana (2), China (+), Gambia (9), India (1), Iran (314+), Iraq (129+), Japan (7), North Korea (6+), Pakistan (1), Palestinian Authority7 (6, Hamas de facto administration in Gaza), Saudi Arabia (79+), Somalia (6+; 5+ by the Transitional Federal Government, and 1 in Puntland), South Sudan (5+), Sudan (19+), Taiwan (6), United Arab Emirates (UAE) (1), USA (43), Yemen (28+).

At least 682 executions were known to have been carried out worldwide, two more than in 2011. However, these figures do not include the thousands of people who were believed to have been executed in China. Since its 2009 report, Amnesty International stopped publishing its estimates on the use of the death penalty in China.
Official figures on the use of the death penalty were available only in a small number of countries. In Belarus, China, Mongolia and Viet Nam, data on the use of the death penalty continued to be classified as a state secret. Little or no information was available in some countries, in particular Belize, Egypt, Eritrea, Libya, Malaysia, North Korea, Suriname and Syria, due to restrictive state practice and/or political instability.

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