Amnesty International’s monitoring of the global use of the death penalty recorded 2,707 executions in 2025, an increase by 78% from 1,518 in 2024. This figure does not include the thousands of executions that Amnesty International believes continued to be carried out in China. The total number of executing countries was 17, which is in […] The post Death sentences and executions 2025 appeared first on Amnesty International .