https://www.persecution.org/2025/05/09/global-executions-on-the-rise-in-a-trend-led-by-the-worlds-top-persecutors/
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Amnesty International, a human rights watchdog group, last month released its annual report on global executions. The report documented 1,518 executions in 2024 — a 32% increase compared to 2023 and the highest global numbers in a decade.
These numbers do not include an estimated thousands of executions conducted by China, a leading persecutor of religion, or those executed in North Korea and Vietnam. .."
