07 January 2008 :
At least 5,628 executions were carried out in 27 states in 2006.China: at least 5,000 (approximately 8,000 according to Liu Renwen, Professor of the Chinese Accademy of Social Sciences)
Iran: at least 215
Pakistan: 82
Iraq: at least 65
Sudan: at least 65
United States: 53
Saudi Arabia: 39
Yemen: 30
Vietnam: at least 14
Kuwait: at least 11
Somalia: at least 7
Singapore: 5
Bangladesh: 4
Egypt: at least 4
Japan: 4
Jordan: at least 4
Malaysia: 4
Bahrain: 3
Belarus: 3
Indonesia: 3
Mongolia: 3
North Korea: at least 3
Syria: 2
Uganda: 2
Botswana: 1
Equatorial Guinea: 1
United Arab Emirates: 1
Libya, Palestinian Authority, Taiwan and Uzbekistan did not register any executions in 2006 although they put people to death in 2005.
In bold: liberal democracies1 (5) that carried out executions (64)
In italics: the countries that had not carried out any executions in 2005
*Non-UN member states
1 The classification “liberal democracy” is based on the rigorous analytic standards employed by freedom house in its freedom in the world 2007 report on the state of political rights and civil liberties around the world (www.freedomhouse.org)
