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Updated: May 12 2021, 11:23 ET
From a fetus murderer to a maniac dubbed the Scorecard Killer , almost 20,000 people are known to be on death row across the world.
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According to Amnesty International, 483 people, excluding China, were executed last year - including 16 women.
China remained the world s leading executioner in 2020 – but the true number of executions is unknown as the figures are classified as a state secret, Amnesty said.
Excluding China, 88 percent of all recorded executions, including beheading, electrocution, hanging, lethal injection and shooting, took place in just four countries - Iran, Egypt, Iraq and Saudi Arabia.
Egypt more than tripled its reported executions - from at least 32 to at least 107.