Use of capital punishment by nation

Capital punishment has been used in almost every part of the globe, but in the last few decades many countries have abolished it. Abolitionist groups including Amnesty International classify countries into four categories:^[1]

58 maintain the death penalty in both law and practice.
95 have abolished it.
9 retain it for crimes committed in exceptional circumstances (such as in time of war).
35 permit its use for ordinary crimes, but have not used it for at least 10 years and are believed to have a policy or established practice of not carrying out executions or is under a moratorium.

Additionally in 2009, Iran (5) and Saudi Arabia (2) executed offenders who were under the age of 18 at the time the crime was committed.^[2] In some countries the practice of extrajudicial execution sporadically or systematically outside their own formal legal frameworks occurs. This list below includes several unrecognized states with de facto control over their territory and dependent territories, neither of which are included in the above numbers, except as noted above. Below, at least 714 were executed around the world.^[3]

Death Penalty World Map
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Abolished for all crimes Abolished for crimes not committed in exceptional circumstances (such as crimes committed in time of war) Abolished in practice Legal form of punishment

Note: The tables can be sorted alphabetically or chronologically using the icon.

1 Africa
2 Asia
3 Europe
4 North America
5 Oceania
6 South America
7 See also
8 References
9 External links

Africa

Executions in 2009: Sudan (9+), Egypt (5+), Libya (4+), Botswana (1)^[4]

Key	Country	Last Execution	Abolished (If applicable)	Notes DZA A project of abolition is being tabled in Parliament in Algeria by Louisa Hanoune and Ahmed Ouyahia since the summer of 2008. AGO BEN BWA BFA BDI CMR CPV CAF TCD COM COD COG CIV DJI EGY GNQ ERI ETH GAB GMB GHA GNB GIN KEN LSO LBR LBY MDG MWI MLI MRT MUS MAR MOZ NAM NER NGA RWA SADR STP SEN SYC SLE SOM Somaliland ZAF SDN SWZ TZA TGO TUN UGA ZMB ZWE

Asia

Executions in 2009: China (unknown), Iran (388+), Iraq (120+), Saudi Arabia (69+), Yemen (30+), Vietnam (9+), Syria (8+), Japan (7), Bangladesh (3), Thailand (2), Singapore (1), Malaysia (?), North Korea (?)^[4]

Key	Country	Last Execution	Abolished (If Applicable)	Notes AFG^[5] AZE BHR BGD BTN BRN KHM PRC HKG MAC Taiwan IND IDNCapital punishment is regulated by state Law No. 2/1964, which stipulates that death sentences should be carried out by firing squad.^[6] IRN IRQ ISR JPN JOR KAZ PRK KOR KWT KGZ LAO LBN MYS MDV MNG MMR Nagorno-Karabakh NPL OMN PAK PSE PHL QAT SAU SGP LKA SYR TJK THA TLS TKM ARE UZB VNM YEM

Europe

Executions in 2010: Belarus (2)^[7]

Key	Country	Last Execution	Abolished	Notes ALB ARM AND AUT BLR BEL BIH BGR CYP HRV CZE DNK EST FIN FRA GEO DEU GRC HUN ISL IRL ITA Kosovo LVA LIE LTU LUX MKD MLT IMN MDA MCO MNE NLD NOR POL PRT ROU RUS SMR SRB SVK SVN ESP SWE CHE Transnistria TUR Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus UKR UK VAT

North America

Executions in 2009: United States (52)

Key	Country	Last Execution	Abolished	Notes ATG BHS BRB BLZ BMU CAN CRI CUB DMA DOM SLV GRD GTM HTI HND JAM MEXSee Capital punishment in Mexico. NIC PAN KNA LCA VCT TTO TCA USA

Oceania

Executions in 2009: none

Key	Country	Last Execution	Abolished	Notes AUS COK FJI KIR MHL FSM NRU NZL NIU PLW PNG WSM SLB TON TUV VUT

South America