....in executions:


5. Pakistan

Pakistan made the Top 5 despite a moratorium on executions imposed by
the ruling Pakistan Peoples Party that prevented the government from
executing anyone in 2009 or 2010. In 2007, 135 people were executed and
36 were in 2008.

Despite the moratorium on executions, Pakistan continued to sentence
people to death – 276 in 2009 and 365 in 2010 – and thousands of people
remain on death row from previous sentences, as noted by Monitor
correspondent Issam Ahmed.

4. United States

The US, the only country in the Americas to execute people in the past
few years, executed 46 people in 2010, down from the 2009 total of 52
but still a notable increase from the 2008 total of 37. The US has
executed a total of 177 since 2007.

Texas, Alabama, Ohio, Virginia, and Oklahoma are the states with the
most executions since since 2007.

3. Iraq

Iraq executed at least 120 people in 2009, but Amnesty International has
been unable to confirm how many were executed in 2010 – the 2010 tally
is “1+,” meaning Amnesty only knows that at least one person was
executed. That person was Ali Hassan Al-Majid, better known as “Chemical
Ali,” who was hung on Jan. 24, 2010. Despite the lack of numbers in
2010, Iraq still has the third most executions on the books since 2007,
with at least 188 confirmed.

Iraq also sentenced more people to death in 2009 than any other country
other than China and has sentenced at least 1,129 people to death since
2007.

2. Iran

After carrying out more than 300 executions a year in 2007, 2008, and
2009, Iran executed at least 252 people in 2010 and at least 1,303 since
2007. A large percentage of Iranian executions are punishment for
drug-related offenses. Seventeen members of Iran’s Kurdish minority are
also on death row for what the report called “political offenses.”

Iran is also one of the few remaining countries to sentence people to
death by stoning – the punishment for “adultery while married.” While no
one was executed by stoning in 2010, at least 14 people were sentenced
to it at the end of the year.


1. China

China is far and away the global leader in terms of the number of people
executed: It executed at least 470 people in 2007 and at least 1,718 in
2008. For 2009 and 2010, Amnesty's report only lists “thousands” because
of the Chinese government’s stance that such statistics are state
secrets. In 2010, China executed more people than the rest of the world
combined, according to Amnesty International.

According to the Death Sentences and Executions report, a large number
of China’s death sentences are for drug-related offenses.


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I'll believe corporations are people when Texas executes one.