07 July 2003 :

At least 4,078 executions were carried out in 34 states in 2002.

China: at least 3.138
Iran: at least 316, including 1 woman stoned
Iraq: at least 214
United States of America: 71, including 3 juveniles
Saudi Arabia: at least 49
Sudan: at least 40
Vietnam: at least 34
Kazakhstan: 31 (up to September 2002)
Tajikistan: at least 25
Pakistan: 20
Singapore: at least 18
Egypt: at least 17
Russia: at least 15 (in separatist-controlled Chechnya)
Jordan: 14
India: at least 12
Uzbekistan: at least 11
Thailand: 9
Yemen: at least 8
Taiwan*: 6 (up to October 31)
Kuwait: 5
Democratic People´s Republic of Korea: at least 4 (total of executions certainly much higher)
Malaysia: 4
Palestinian Authority*: 3
Belarus: at least 3 (up to July 2002)
Zimbabwe: 3
Japan: 2
Uganda: 2
Bangladesh: 1
Georgia: 1 (in Chechen-held Pankisi Gorge)
Nigeria: 1
United Arab Emirates: at least 1

There is no official or other information, but according to Amnesty International executions have also been carried out in Equatorial Guinea, Somalia and Syria.

In bold, liberal democracies1 (5) that carried out executions (100)
In italics, changes with regard to 2001
*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 2003 report on the state of political rights and civil liberties around the world (see www.freedomhouse.org).