China, Iran, Iraq, Saudi Arabia and the US – these are the five countries that led the world in executions in 2012. A report from the human rights group Amnesty International was published on Wednesday, showing that 682 people were executed in 2012 in all countries other than China. There, it is estimated that more than 1,000 people were given the death penalty. Regardless of the numbers, Amnesty said, we are getting closer to a world without capital punishment.
Following China at second place was Iran, with 314 people executed, then Iraq, with 129. Saudi Arabia came in fourth with 79. The US holds the fifth place with 43 executions and is the only country in the Americas which still practices the death penalty.
Texas had 15 executions last year, which would put them in 8th place if they were a separate country in the world — between Sudan and Afghanistan.
The number of death sentences carried out in the Lone Star State is expected to be even higher in 2013. There have been only two so far this year – one of them this past week – but there are 12 more executions scheduled over the next four months.
Like Ron (Tater Salad) White said, Texas not only has the death penalty, we have an express lane.
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