About death penalties

Ultra-left "Amnesty international" with loud headline "Executions surge to highest recorded figure in 44 years"

Executions in 2025 soared to the highest figure recorded by Amnesty International since 1981, with 2,707 people executed across 17 countries, revealed the latest annual report from the human rights organization on the global use of the death penalty.

What a nightmare!😱
But the average reader rarely reads beyond the headline. And by a strange coincidence, this average reader is quite fond of supporting so-called "developing" countries, while at the same time vilifying the countries they themselves live in. So, let's take a quick look at who's responsible for this dramatic increase in the death penalty!

The staggering rise recorded in the report Death Sentences and Executions 2025, was down to a handful of governments determined to rule by fear. Iranian authorities, the main drivers behind the spike, executed at least 2,159 people, more than double its 2024 figure.

Wow!😲 Doesn't anyone find it strange that the vast majority of death executions were carried out in the territories of either Islamic or communist regimes?🤔

Elsewhere, Saudi Arabia raised its execution tally to at least 356, using the death penalty extensively for drug-related offences. Executions in Kuwait almost tripled (from 6 to 17), while they near doubled in Egypt (from 13 to 23), Singapore (from 9 to 17), and the United States of America (from 25 to 47). Overall, executions rose by 78%, after at least 1,518 executions were recorded in 2024. The 2025 total does not include the thousands of executions that Amnesty International believes continued to be carried out in China, which remained the world’s lead executioner.

What heartfelt words!

“This alarming spike in the use of the death penalty is due to a small, isolated group of states willing to carry out executions at all costs, despite the continued global trend towards abolition. From China, Iran, North Korea and Saudi Arabia to Yemen, Kuwait, Singapore and the USA, this shameless minority are weaponizing the death penalty to instil fear, crush dissent and show the strength state institutions have over disadvantaged people and marginalized communities,” said Agnès Callamard, Amnesty International’s Secretary General.

She actually compared in one sentence countries like Islamist Iran and Saudi Arabia, or North Korea with Singapore and the United States. Of course, there is and cannot be “any difference” between these countries in their worldview!
BTW, leglize supporters, how about this?

The resurgence of highly punitive approaches in the “war on drugs” drove efforts to expand the use of the death penalty. This was reflected in the number of executions, with close to half (1,257 or 46%) of all known executions recorded for drug-related offences: in China (+), Iran (998), Kuwait (2), Saudi Arabia (240) and Singapore (15). Algeria, Kuwait, and the Maldives made legislative efforts to expand the scope of the death penalty to include drug-related offences.

They usually love to say "By death sentences in China they won the corruption" and etc. but what do we see in 2026?

Beijing — In a stunning move amid a continued purge of its military, China on Thursday gave two former defense ministers suspended death sentences for corruption.
Wei Fenghe and Li Shangfu were both convicted of bribery and given the death penalty with a two-year reprieve by the country’s military court, according to state media. The court announced that the two former generals’ sentences will be commuted to life imprisonment without the possibility of parole after two years.
Wei, 72, served as defense minister from 2018 to 2023. Li, 68, succeeded Wei and held the position for less than eight months in 2023. Both men were placed under investigation by the military’s anti-graft arm in 2023.
Chinese leader Xi Jinping has taken his purge of the armed forces to the very top, most recently targeting his highest-ranked general with the removal in January of Zhang Youxia, who outranked Wei and Li and once oversaw the military’s day-to-day operations.

So, have you made up your mind yet? Has corruption been defeated or not yet? And if not, then perhaps death sentences don't work against it?🤨

Meanwhile in "hateful" USA where 47 executions were carried out:

Crime rates in the U.S. fell dramatically in 2025. That's a major takeaway among criminal justice experts as we approach the year's end. ...basically, in short, it fell by a lot, pretty much across the board, in big cities and small towns, in red and blue states, basically everywhere. Murders in particular saw a huge decline of around 20% this year, but violent crime in general - things like rape, robbery, aggravated assault - were also down. And property crimes were down, too, including motor vehicle theft and burglaries. Those numbers are from the Real-Time Crime Index, which is run by the firm AH Dataytics and uses data from nearly 600 jurisdictions around the country.

But of course it's not because of Trump's administration! Democrats cannot afford to admit this!😃

Well, some of it is that we're kind of on the back half of a roller coaster hill. So let's talk specifically about murders. In 2020 and 2021, homicide rates surged across the country.

"Dramatically" but "on the back half of a roller coaster hill". Hm-m-m...🤔

And meanwhile in Uganda where was born today's NY mayor

Two women have been arrested and detained in Uganda after allegedly kissing in public, an act of “same-sex activity” which can lead to a life sentence in the east African country.
Wendy Faith, a 22-year-old musician known as Torrero Bae, and Alesi Diana Denise, 21, were taken into custody after police raided their rented room in Uganda’s north-west Arua City last week.
“Information was received from the community that the suspects have been involved in queer and unusual acts believed to be sexual in nature, besides being allegedly seen kissing each other in broad daylight,” said Josephine Angucia, a police spokesperson for the West Nile region, which borders the Democratic Republic of Congo.
“It’s further alleged … that many ladies normally converge to stay at the suspects’ residence. It is upon that information that police acted by arresting the two female suspects under the allegation of practicing homosexuality,” she said.

Double hm-m-m...🤔

New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani unveiled a new Mayor’s Office of LGBTQIA+ Affairs on Friday, headed by the first openly transgender person to lead a city agency.
Mamdani signed an executive order establishing the new office and appointing Taylor Brown as its director on Friday afternoon at the Brooklyn Community Pride Center.

Well, lesbians in Uganda don't have to worry for now - there's no death penalty in Zohran's homeland. For now🤔

Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni’s decision to sign the Anti-Homosexuality Act 2023 on May 29 has drawn widespread international criticism. The new law pre­scribes that people convicted of “aggravated homosexuality” may now be punished with a death sentence. Although same-sex relationships were already illegal in the country, the new law, which passed with the support of 341 out of 389 members of parliament, includes harsh­er punishments for “promoting” homosexuality and engaging in same-sex relations. Uganda last carried out an execution in 2005.

According to ILGA’s database, over 60 countries around the world still criminalize consensual same‑sex activity, mostly through prison sentences of varying lengths (from fines and short terms to long jail terms). A smaller group of roughly a dozen countries even retains the death penalty for such acts. This includes national laws in countries such as Afghanistan, Iran, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates, as well as regional sharia provisions applied in parts of Nigeria and Somalia... Uganda significantly stepped up enforcement after a controversial law was introduced in 2023, and renewed legislative pressure in 2025 led to several high‑profile prosecutions.

By the way, the European Union even issued a parliamentary inquiry on this topic

1. Has the Commission considered suspending aid to Uganda? If not, until when will we contribute to cementing a dictator through our generous aid?
2. Can we really continue to transfer money and ignore the fate of gay people?

But what did Mamdani answer to this?

It's Uganda Deputy Prime Minister Rebecca Kadaga nearby Zohran
And here they are, but next to the welcomingly smiling Mamdani's daddy

Interestingly enough, the photo was taken in Kampala, the capital of Uganda. The very same city from which Mamdani's daddy was once "exiled"🤔

Mamdani returned to Uganda in early 1972 and was employed by Makerere University in Kampala as a teaching assistant, at the same time conducting his doctoral research. He and most Asians were expelled later that year by Ugandan dictator Idi Amin because of their ethnicity; Amin intended to "reclaim" businesses and properties.

Obviously, no one is threatening either daddy or son now, so why not return to Uganda and start fighting for gay rights there? I guess it's much easier to fight for gay rights in Uganda from New York🤔

They write that this photo is from 2009, which means that Zohran certainly could not have been unaware of this problem in its home country.

OK, let's leave Mamdani alone!
Let's speak about communist china! They say this is a country of victorious social justice and communism with electric cars and other elements of so-called "green energy" (I'm intending to write about it). Western lefties love to admire the achievements of Chinese communism, but I wonder have they ever heard about chinese "execution vans"

BTW for some reason information about these vans isn't on the "amnesty international" site, if you have doubts - you may try to find it🤔

In China, mobile death vans travel round the country executing people
Chinese execution vans, external look like specially outfitted ambulances to efficiently carry out its exceedingly large number of executions in rural areas. They are said to be fitted with an electric powered stretcher and convicted prisoners are killed by lethal injection with authorities harvesting organs, external immediately after execution.

Perhabs it's fantasy of BBC

Doesn't this remind you of anything?🤨

And during this time chinese billionaire Neville Roy Singham sponsors protests in USA againsh "hateful" capitalizm and in support for so-called "palestine" (I already wrote about this) and iranian ayatollas which ensured the historical record for death penalty executions and covered by children.
You don't find any contradictions in this?🤔