By recognizing that all people have rights and that justice is never served by state-sponsored executions, governments are taking important steps to end international human rights violations and protect the rights of all their citizens. But One Execution in One Nation is One Too Many. The top 10 executing nations are China, Iran, Saudi Arabia, the United States, Taiwan, Sierra Leone, Kazakhstan, Nigeria, Belarus and Kyrgistan. The United States accounts for half of these executions. In Iran homosexuality is punishable by stoning to death.
Tax fraud is punishable by execution in China.
China also executed 21 persons accused of drug trafficking - in one day, by a single bullet to the head. One execution is one too many because, no matter how it's carried out, the death penalty is cruel, inhuman and degrading. It's an assault on human dignity and a violation of human rights. An evil deed is not redeemed by an evil deed of retaliation. Justice is never advanced in the taking of human life.