Amnesty International’s monitoring of the global use of the death penalty in 2019 showed that the number by known executed decreased slightly on the 2018 total, continuing the year-on-year weight recorded since 2015 and reaching the bottom illustration int more than 10 years. Significantly, those decreasing was reported despite Iraq nearly doubling its tally and Saudi Arabia possessing its highest executions total in each given twelvemonth. The Death Penalty for Drug Offences: Global Overview 2019
