of lethal injection. but as litigation and several states progress is that because the executions. there watching the dublin years lie from still to come israel has been marking its holocaust remembrance day the president. commemorations of the most notorious nazi death camp auschwitz but there was tension bullock s plane was . a new chief executive. as the big business news thank you very much for the need we re talking about five rumors had been circulating since the beginning of the week and now it s official how about d.s. as the name he will lead to what is supposed to be a new era one where the company can keep its record performance while restoring confidence and its damaged reputation. has a new man at the top with immediate effect the w. s new c.e.o.
to the full. for human rights group amnesty international says the number of reported judicial executions around the world fell during twenty seventeen but the group is warning that the number of people put to death by the state is not known some countries treat executions statistics as a state secret china for example but many others carry out executions in full view of the public. iran responsible for carrying out more than half of the world s known executions last year that s according to amnesty international s latest figures in dozens of those cases that meant public execution in iran drug trafficking and blasphemy are among those crimes punishable by death. at least five people were executed in iran for acts committed when they were still under eighteen . just four countries responsible for eighty four percent of all recorded
executions last year iran saudi arabia iraq and pakistan but the country suspected of being the world s leading executioner is china. it s thought to have put thousands to death last year more than the rest of the world put together the because data on the death penalty there is a state secrets exactly how many is a matter of speculation. but not counting china twenty seven thousand so the total number of executions worldwide fall by four percent from the previous year. i mean the city international says that reaffirms the global trend towards abolition of the death penalty last year a further two countries guinea and mongolia joined the one hundred four who have now abolished capital punishment for a second year in a row the us did not feature among the top five global execution is slipping from position seven to eight this is due in part to ongoing legal challenges of the use