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China before the Olympics execution champion

Berlin, 15 April 2008 - In 2007, the worldwide trend towards
confirmed the death penalty: "The majority of executions are on the
account of a handful of states, and China will "win" this macabre
discipline in the year before the Olympic games. At the same time, the
death penalty inevitably on the decline, "said Oliver Hendrich of
Amnesty International (AI) to publish the
ai-death statistics for 2007. Ai urges all States that executed yet
upon, the resolution of the UN General Assembly .. to close the
December 2007, this first time for an immediate moratorium on executions
calls as a first important step towards the universal abolition of this punishment


In 2007, ai 1252 killings (2006: 1,591) in at least
documented 24 (25) countries at least 3347 (3,861) people in 51
(55) countries were sentenced to death. A total of 135 (129)
countries have abolished the death penalty in law or in practice, 62
(68) hold on to it. 2007 managed to Albania, the Cook Islands and Rwanda
the death penalty completely, Kyrgyzstan
for ordinary crimes. This means that now more than two-thirds of all states
the death penalty, at least in practice abolished
. Yet only about a third of the world's population lives (about 31
percent) in states that do not execute.

had for almost 90 percent of all executions in 2007 of five-
States responsible: In China, the state killed at least 470 people
(2006: 1,010), Iran 317 (177), Saudi Arabia 143 (39),
in Pakistan 135 (82) and in the USA 42 (53) people. Here
there are minimum numbers. Official figures give only
few states, such as the United States. In China, executions
remain a state secret. ai assumes that there actually
several thousand people were executed. For more than 60
offenses, including offenses such as tax evasion and drug smuggling
, the death penalty may be imposed in China.

"The cloak of silence over the death penalty must be lifted
" sagte Hendrich. "Wenn es stimmt, dass Hinrichtungen die
Unterstützung der Bevölkerung haben - wie viele Regierungen behaupten
- dann hat die Bevölkerung auch das Recht zu erfahren, was und in
welchem Umfang in ihrem Namen geschieht."

Unter http://www.amnesty-todesstrafe.de/statistik_2007 finden Sie das
gesamte Zahlenmaterial sowie Hintergrundinformationen. Gerne senden
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- Zahlen und Fakten zur Todesstrafe (Briefing, 8 Seiten)
- Staaten mit und ohne Todesstrafe (Karte)
- Hinrichtungen und Todesurteile 2007 (Karte)

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