Saudi Arabia tops death penalty countries: Amnesty International

Amnesty International says Saudi Arabia has sentenced 184 people to death last year despite the death penalty worldwide.

Last year, Iraq also doubled in number of casualties and hundred people were executed, while Iran has become the second highest death penalty country after China with 251 executions.

According to the Amnesty International, a human rights organization, the global death toll has been trending for the past four years. Now the sentences have reduced to 657, which is five percent less than in 2018.

According to Amnesty, this is the lowest number in the last decade.Amnesty did not include China in the figures, where it is thought that the number of those executed may be in the thousands but it remains a state secret.

It is also believed that Iran, North Korea and Vietnam did not give the exact number of death sentences preventing access to information.

According to the Amnesty International, the human rights organization has seen a trend in the global death penalty for the past four years.

Amnesty's senior research director, Claire Elgar, said: "The death sentence is a decent and inhumane sentence, and there is no unambiguous evidence that it has discouraged crime against incarceration."

According to him, a large number of countries have acknowledged this fact and it is encouraging that these punishments are now decreasing worldwide.

"However, there are a few countries that have increased the death penalty by continuously defying this global trend."

He says the increase in death sentence by Saudi Arabia is a worrying situation.

Last year, Saudi Arabia executed 178 men and six women. Over half of those sentenced to death are made up of foreigners. In 2018, the death toll was 149.

Most of them were sentenced to murder and drug offenses. According to Amnesty, the death penalty is being used as a political tool against the Shia Muslim minority.

In April last year, 37 people were executed simultaneously in terrorist offenses. According to Amnesty, five of the men were from the Shia community, during which confessional statements were made as a result of torture.

In Iraq, it is very regrettable that in Iraq, from 52 people in 2018, to 100 deaths in 2019, Elgar says.

The increase has been due to the death penalty for terrorists belonging to the so-called Islamic extremists.

Authorities in southern Sudan have executed at least eleven people last year. Since 2011, when the country is liberated, it becomes the highest number ever.

Yemen executed four people in 2018 and seven in 2019. After a one-year hiatus, Bangladesh and Bahrain have also begun the execution.

According to Amnesty, the trend to reduce the death penalty globally has been observed for various reasons.

Several countries, including Egypt, Japan and Singapore, have seen a clear reduction in the death penalty, which has been supporting the death penalty.

In 2017, after a change in anti-narcotics law, Iran executed fewer people for the second year in a row.

For the first time since 2010 there have been no executions in Afghanistan. In 2018, the death penalty in Taiwan and Thailand has also seen a death sentence.

106 countries around the world have abolished the death penalty for all crimes by law, while 142 countries have either abolished or abolished the death penalty.