Death penalty

Top Five Countries with the Highest Rates of Executions

At least 21 countries were known to have carried out executions in 2012, according to Amnesty International.

Here is a list of the five countries with the highest rates of capital punishment. 

China
Since its 2009 report, Amnesty International stopped publishing its estimates on the use of the death penalty in China, where such data are considered a state secret. However, Amnesty believes that thousands of people were executed in China in 2012...