Update: July 2020

                                             The Death Penalty in Practice

• 106 countries abolished the death penalty for all crimes

• 8 countries abolished the death penalty for ordinary crimes only
• 28 countries are abolitionist in practice
• 56 countries are retentionist

• In 2019, the 5 countries that carried out most executions were China, Iran, Saudi Arabia, Iraq, and Egypt.

(World Coalition against the Death Penalty)

Death Penalty in Thailand

Prison population: Men 331,372; Women 47,971; Total 379,343

Condemned to death: Men 310; Women 53; Total 363

(Corrections Department, 16 June 2020)