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For the 15th consecutive year, the USA remained the only country in the region to carry out executions.

The number of executions carried out in the USA increased by 33%, rising from 18 in 2022 to 24 in 2023.

Florida carried out its first executions (6) and US federal authorities imposed their first death sentence since 2019.

For the seventh consecutive year, Guyana, Trinidad and Tobago and the USA were the only countries in the region that imposed new death sentences.

Asia-Pacific continued to be the region with the highest number of executions in the world.

In Asia-Pacific, six countries (Afghanistan, Bangladesh, China, North Korea, Singapore and Viet Nam) are known to have carried out executions in 2023, a decrease from eight in 2022.

No executions were recorded in Japan and Myanmar, countries which executed people in 2022.

A total of 948 new death sentences were imposed in the region, based on available information, a 10% increase from 2022, when at least 861 people were known to have been sentenced to death.

Malaysia repealed the mandatory death penalty for all offences and reduced the scope of this punishment; Pakistan abolished the death penalty for drug related offences; and the authorities of Sri Lanka affirmed their intention not to carry out executions.

Belarus remained the only country in Europe to use the death penalty, sentencing one person to death in 2023.

Russia and Tajikistan continued to observe moratoriums on executions.

The number of executions recorded in the Middle East and North Africa region increased by 30%, rising from 825 in 2022 to 1,073 in 2023.

Recorded death sentences also increased, from 827 in 2022 to 950 in 2023.

Iran, Saudi Arabia and Iraq were the top three executing countries in the region in 2023. They accounted for 97% of all recorded executions in the region: Iran (80%), Saudi Arabia (16%) and Iraq (1%),

In total eight countries carried out executions in the region in 2023 Egypt, Iran, Iraq, Kuwait, Palestine (State of), Saudi Arabia, Syria and Yemen.

Recorded executions in the region more than tripled from 11 in 2022 to 38 in 2023.

All 38 executions took place in one country Somalia.

Death sentences were recorded in 14 countries in 2023, compared to 16 in 2022.

Recorded death sentences increased sharply by 66%, from 298 in 2022 to 494 in 2023.

Four countries (Kenya, Liberia, Zimbabwe and Ghana) took positive legislative steps towards the abolition of the death penalty.

*When calculating global and regional totals, + has been counted as two.

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