(Mainichi/Kenta Oka) LONDON (Kyodo) -- Over 1,500 executions were confirmed across 15 countries in 2024, hitting the highest level since ... figures increasing from 2023 to 972, 345 and 63 ...

Over the next four days, four inmates in four states are scheduled to be put to death – a cluster that, while not abnormal – ...

The number of state-ordered executions worldwide surged to the highest level in nearly a decade last year ... and an increase of almost a third on 2023 figures, the report states.

Executions in Iran reached their highest level since 2015, with at least 972 recorded in 2024, according to Amnesty International. The surge helped drive a global increase in capital punishment ...

Overall, there have been more than 1,600 executions in the U.S. over the last ... Meanwhile, the percentage of Black prisoners on death row (41%) nearly matched that of white defendants (42% ...