Iran responsible for majority of 2024 state executions, Amnesty reports

According to Amnesty International’s report, over 1,500 people were executed in 2024, with Iran, Iraq, and Saudi Arabia accounting for the majority of deaths. The death penalty was primarily used for drug-related and terrorism charges, with a total of 113 countries fully abolitionist and 145 having abolished the death penalty in law or practice. Despite the high number of executions, the report highlighted a global trend towards the abolition of the death penalty and emphasized the ineffectiveness and unlawfulness of using it for drug-related offenses or to silence critics of the state.

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