Executions Rise | Electronics Weekly

Several  countries do not publish accurate figures including North Korea, Vietnam and Belarus and numbers in China are a state secret but thought to be many thousand.

According to Amnesty the rise in executions last year was driven by a handful of states particularly Iran which executed at least 2159 people – more than double its 2024 figure – and the highest number on record since 1981.

Executions in Kuwait almost tripled from 6 to 17 and nearly doubled in Egypt from 13 to 23 and in Singapore from 9 to 17.

In the US 47 executions were recorded in 2025 up from 25 in 2024./These were: Alabama five Arizona to Florida 19 Indiana 2 Louisiana 1 Mississippi 2 Missouri 1 Oklahoma 2 South Carolina 5 Tennessee 3 and Texas 5.

23 New death sentences were recorded: Alabama 4 Arizona 2, California 5, Florida 5 Missouri 1, North Carolina 2 Pennsylvania 1 andTexas 3