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| U.S. executions down last year, but country still put more inmates to death than most other nations |
| By swtimes.com- Mark Berman |
| Published: 04/06/2016 |
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Capital punishment continued its steady decline in the United States last year, with death sentences and executions dropping to levels unseen for decades. But despite this shift, the country remains among the world’s leaders in the death penalty, putting more inmates to death in 2015 than most other nations. The United States came in at No. 5 — again — on the list of countries that carried out executions last year, according to a new Amnesty International report released Tuesday night: That list comes with a bit of an asterisk, of course. While the United States had more confirmed executions than Iraq (26 recorded executions), Somalia (25) and Egypt (22), Amnesty notes that it believes more executions likely took place in those countries — they just couldn’t confirm them. So while Amnesty believes Saudi Arabia carried out more than 158 executions, it could only confirm 158 executions, the report states. Read More. |
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