Execution League
Amnesty International has recently published its “league table” of rates of execution in countries around the world. 80% of executions worldwide were carried out by just one country. There are no prizes for guessing which... Yes, it’s China. 1700 people were murdered by the Chinese state last year. The other big offenders were Iran, Saudi Arabia and the US; those countries were responsible for 14% of executions. Gay and human rights activist Brett Lock (brettlock.blogspot.com) has done a useful analysis of the figures. He worked out at the rate of executions in each country relative to the...