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Almost 2,400 people worldwide were executed last year, but most countries moved a step closer toward abolishing the death penalty, Amnesty International said Tuesday.
China carried out more executions than the rest of the world combined, with 1,718 people put to death, the human-rights group said.
With China, four other nations -- Iran, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia and the United States -- accounted for 93 percent of the 2,390 executions, according to the group's report "Death Sentences and Executions in 2008."
Saudi Arabia put to death 102 people. It often publicly beheaded the condemned, and sometimes followed that by crucifying them.
http://www.cnn.com/2009/CRIME/03/24/...ort/index.html
China carried out more executions than the rest of the world combined, with 1,718 people put to death, the human-rights group said.
With China, four other nations -- Iran, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia and the United States -- accounted for 93 percent of the 2,390 executions, according to the group's report "Death Sentences and Executions in 2008."
Saudi Arabia put to death 102 people. It often publicly beheaded the condemned, and sometimes followed that by crucifying them.
http://www.cnn.com/2009/CRIME/03/24/...ort/index.html