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GLOBAL DEATH PENALTY REPORT: EXECUTIONS FOR DRUG OFFENSES DOWN 75% WORLDWIDE

April 19, 2021:

Executions for drug offenses plummeted worldwide during 2020, according to a new report by the global drug-policy monitor Harm Reduction International (HRI).
Three countries — China, Saudi Arabia, and Iran — carried out 30 confirmed executions for non-violent drug crimes over the course of the year, the group reported in its annual analysis, The Death Penalty for Drug Offences: Global Overview 2020. The total was the lowest since HRI began reporting on executions for drug offenses in 2007. Drug-related executions were down 75% from the 116 confirmed drug executions worldwide in 2019 and have declined by a staggering 96% from the 755 confirmed drug executions in 2015.
HRI attributed some of the decline in execution to the COVID-19 pandemic but said that “political developments played an important role.” Drug executions were down from 84 in 2019 to five in 2020 in Saudi Arabia, after the Kingdom proclaimed a moratorium on the practice. The report noted what it called a “slight” but “significant … decrease in confirmed executions in Iran” from 30 in 2019 to 25 in 2020 following legislative amendments to the nation’s drug laws. For the first time since 2013, HRI said, Singapore did not carry out any drug-related executions.
“It is too early to definitively conclude if this is the beginning of a long-term trend, or the outcome of an exceptional year,” the report said. HRI cautioned that cumulative data on the death penalty for drug offenses “is grossly insufficient, partly due to a lack of information on executions in China and Vietnam.”
The organization confirmed that drug executions had taken place in China in 2020 but noted that “both [countries] are reported to routinely execute people for drug offences.”
While executions for drug offenses dramatically declined, HRI reported that death sentences imposed worldwide for non-violent drug crimes and the number of prisoners on death rows worldwide for drug offenses both rose in 2020.
At least 213 people received a death sentence for drug offences in 2020, up from 183 in 2019.
Thirty-five countries still authorize the death-penalty for drug offenses and ten imposed death sentences under those laws.
HRI confirmed the imposition of at least 213 new death sentences for drug offenses in 2020, a 16% increase.
At least 3,000 people are currently on death rows worldwide for drug offenses, HRI said.

(Sources: DPIC, 16/04/2021)

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