“On 29 May 2024, Amnesty International published its annual report on the state of the death penalty worldwide. Amnesty International’s monitoring shows that in 2023 the lowest number of countries on record carried out the highest number of known executions in close to a decade…

Close to three quarters of the countries in the world have now abolished the death penalty in law or practice. As of 31 December 2023, the numbers were as follows: Abolitionist for all crimes: 112 Abolitionist for ordinary crimes only: 9 Abolitionist in practice: 23 Total abolitionist in law or practice: 144 Retentionist: 55.

In Asia, Malaysia repealed the mandatory death penalty for all offences and reduced the scope of this punishment; Pakistan abolished the death penalty for drug related offences; and the authorities of Sri Lanka affirmed their intention not to carry out execution.

In July, the Parliament of Ghana from the Criminal and Other Offences Act 1960 and the Armed Forces Act 1962 in favor of two bills that removed the death penalty. In Kenya, four bills to abolish the death penalty were introduced in Parliament between August and September. In Zimbabwe, a bill to abolish the death penalty in the country was gazetted in December.”

From Amnesty International.