Amnesty International reports today that there were a minimum of 3,797 people who were executed last year in 25 countries; 97 percent of those executions occurred in China, Iran, Vietnam, and America.
In 2004, Bhutan, Greece, Samoa, Senegal, and Turkey joined the list of 115 other nations that have abolished the death penalty.
—Mimi Hanaoka
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