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Executions worldwide hit 40-year high, Amnesty says

Deutsche Welle · · 669 words · By Louis Oelofse
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“The number of executions worldwide reached its highest level in more than four decades in 2025”
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The provided evidence for claim 0 consists of dictionary definitions of 'global' and information about beauty pageants (Miss Global). There is no evidence regarding execution statistics for 2025.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Miss Global is an international beauty pageant established in 2013. The Miss Global pageant is one of the international pageants that accept single mothers, and age range of candidates is from 18 to 3…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miss_Global
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Miss Global 2025 was the 10th Miss Global pageant, held at the MCC Hall, The Mall Lifestore Ngamwongwan in Nonthaburi, Thailand, on March 9, 2025. This was the first edition held under the ownership o…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miss_Global_2025
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Mister Global is an annual men's beauty contest that has been held in Thailand since it was founded in 2014. The competition's inaugural edition was held in the village of Pak Chong, located some 170 …
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“At least 2,707 people are known to have been put to death, according to the rights group's annual review.”
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The evidence provided describes Amnesty International as an organization but does not contain any data or reports regarding the number of executions in 2025.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Amnesty International (also referred to as Amnesty or AI) is an international non-governmental organization focused on human rights, with its headquarters in the United Kingdom. The organization says …
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amnesty_International
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Amnesty International India was a country unit of the Amnesty International network, and was part of a global movement promoting and defending human rights and dignity. In September 2020, Amnesty halt…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amnesty_International_India
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Criticism of Amnesty International includes claims of selection bias, as well as ideology and foreign policy biases. Various governments criticised by Amnesty International have in turn criticised th…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Criticism_of_Amnesty_Internati…
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“That marks a 78% jump from 2024”
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The evidence mentions general execution trends in the US and Saudi Arabia, but does not provide a global percentage increase for 2025 compared to 2024.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — 2025 (MMXXV) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar, the 2025th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 25th year of the 3rd millennium and the 2…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2025
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The Eurovision Song Contest 2025 was the 69th edition of the Eurovision Song Contest. It consisted of two semi-finals on 13 and 15 May and a final on 17 May 2025, held at St. Jakobshalle in Basel, Swi…
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“highest figure Amnesty has recorded since 1981, when 3,191 executions were logged”
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web search NEUTRAL — Amnesty International (also referred to as Amnesty or AI) is an international non-governmental organization focused on human rights, with its headquarters in the United Kingdom.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amnesty_International
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web search NEUTRAL — Executions in Saudi Arabia are carried out by beheading with a sharp sword for males and usually by firing squad for females. Married women convicted of adultery may also be executed by stoning to dea…
https://www.amnesty.org/fr/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/mde230…
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web search NEUTRAL — Amnesty International recorded executions in 20 countries, compared to 18 countries in 2021. Violating international law. 325 executions were recorded for drug-related offences: 255 in Iran; 57 in Sau…
https://www.amnesty.org.uk/knowledge-hub/all-resources/death…
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“2,159 executions in Iran alone”
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web search NEUTRAL — According to The Guardian, the war has overshadowed the executions of political prisoners in Iran, including those involved in the mass protests of January 2026, allowing Iran to continue carrying out…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2026_Iran_war
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web search NEUTRAL — Last year, Iran carried out 2,159 executions, according to Amnesty International - the highest number since 1989. It says that the vast majority are for drugs-related offences or murder. The UN fears …
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cn8p392nl7yo
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web search NEUTRAL — Last year, Iran carried out 2,159 executions, according to Amnesty International - the highest number since 1989. It says that the vast majority are for drugs-related offences or murder. The UN fears …
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cn8p392nl7yo
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“54 countries still have the death penalty”
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The Simple English Wikipedia evidence explicitly states: 'As of 2025, fifty-four countries in the world still use the death penalty.'
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web search NEUTRAL — Abolitionist countries (have banned the death penalty): 106.As of 2025, fifty-four countries in the world still use the death penalty.[3] In most of these countries, the death penalty is used to punis…
https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_penalty
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web search NEUTRAL — Maintain the death penalty in both law and practice.The 193 United Nations member states and the 2 observer states fall into four categories based on their use of capital punishment. As of 2024[update…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capital_punishment_by_country
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web search NEUTRAL — The death penalty is not used at all in 112 countries, compared with 48 in 1991. Six countries abolished the death penalty either fully, or partially, in 2022. Four - Kazakhstan, Papua New Guinea, Sie…
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-45835584
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“2,334 new death sentences were recorded in 2025”
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web search NEUTRAL — As of mid-2025, the number of new death sentences remained at historically low levels, while the number of executions increased compared to 2024.[194]. Racial demographic of death row inmates in the U…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capital_punishment_in_the_Unit…
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web search NEUTRAL — Amnesty International recorded 2,087 new death sentences in 2024, a 14% decrease on the 2,428 known total of 2023. The 2023 total was the highest total on record since 2018, and the decrease seen in 2…
https://www.amnestyusa.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/Amnest…
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web search NEUTRAL — At least 2,087 new death sentences across 46 countries were known to have been imposed in 2024, compared to at least 2,428 in 52 countries in 2023. Amnesty International recorded commutations or pardo…
https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2025/04/global-record…
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“25,508 people were under sentence of death at the end of 2025”
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web search NEUTRAL — How many people are there in the world? World population has reached 8 billion on November 15, 2022 according to the United Nations.Population in the world is growing at a rate of around 0.84% per yea…
https://www.worldometers.info/world-population/
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web search NEUTRAL — Similarly, death sentence for drug-related offenses skyrocketed in Saudi Arabia rising from 16% of total executions in 2016 to 40% in 2017.The organization insisted that with at least 21,919 people kn…
https://saharareporters.com/2018/04/12/21919-people-under-de…
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“Only 17 countries carried out executions in 2025”
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“Beheading, hanging, lethal injection, shooting and nitrogen gas asphyxiation were used as methods of execution in 2025”
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“Amnesty was able to confirm that executions were carried out in North Korea and Vietnam”
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“Saudi Arabia also recorded a notable rise, carrying out at least 356 executions”
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“the United States recorded its highest execution figure since 2009, with 47 people put to death”
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“Florida alone accounted for nearly half of those executions”
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“The number of people on death row in the United States fell below 2,000 for the first time since Amnesty began collecting the data”
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“By the end of 2025, 113 countries had fully abolished the death penalty for all crimes, up from just 16 in 1977”
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“Reforms during the year included the abolition of capital punishment for several offenses in Vietnam”
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“In Kyrgyzstan, the Constitutional Court ruled that reintroducing the death penalty would violate the constitution”
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“Zimbabwe commuted all existing death sentences”
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