Facts and Figures on the Death Penalty (1 January 2007)

Index AI : ACT 50/002/2007
Date de publication : 27 avril 2007

This document provides information about abolitionist and retentionist countries; progress towards worldwide abolition; moves to reintroduce the death penalty; death sentences and executions; methods of execution; use of the death penalty against child offenders; the deterrence argument; effect of abolition on crime rates; international agreements to abolish the death penalty; execution of the innocent; and, the death penalty in the USA.