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Here is the list of countries which carried out executions in 2006, courtesy of Amnesty International:

• Bahrain
• Bangladesh
• Botswana
• China
• Egypt
• Equatorial Guinea
• Indonesia
• Iran
• Iraq
• Japan
• Jordan
• Korea (North)
• Kuwait
• Malaysia
• Mongolia
• Pakistan
• Saudi Arabia
• Singapore
• Somalia
• Sudan
• Syria
• Uganda
• United States of America
• Viet Nam
• Yemen

Stats for 2007 were not available.

Facts & Observations:

There were no executions recorded in the Western world except for the 53 persons killed by federal and state governments in the United States.

Of the world’s 1,591 documented executions, 1,010 were by China. An additional 6,500 to 7,000 undocumented Chinese killings are estimated by “credible sources”. (The official count is a state secret.)

The top five executioners are (in order): China, Iran, Pakistan, Iraq, and Sudan. The United States is next in line. These six nations account for 92% of the world’s executions.

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