US EditionIran using executions for 'state intimidation'
- On Monday, the United Nations said Iran reportedly executed 1,500 people last year, with Volker Turk warning, "The scale and pace of executions suggest a systematic use of capital punishment as a tool of state intimidation, with disproportionate impact on ethnic minorities and migrants."
- Rights data show Iran's share of drug-related executions was at least 47 percent, and Saudi Arabia saw 78 percent of its 356 executions for drug-related offences last year.
- Human-Rights investigators noted 47 executions in the United States in 2025 amid concerns over gas asphyxiation, highlighted public executions in Afghanistan, and reported secrecy in China and North Korea.
- Turk insisted `This is not only incompatible with international law, but also ineffective in deterring crime` and said `The death penalty is not an effective crime-control tool, and it can lead to the execution of innocent people`, urging abolition.
- While the world trends toward abolition, Iran, Saudi Arabia, and the United States saw executions surge, and Israel faces legislative proposals targeting Palestinians, the rights office said.
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Soaring Iran executions seemingly ’tool of state intimidation’
Iran appears to be using executions "as a tool of state intimidation", the United Nations said Monday, as it denounced a jump in capital punishment globally in 2025. The Islamic Republic reportedly executed 1,500 people last year, UN rights chief Volker Turk said in a statement. "The scale and pace of executions suggest a systematic use of capital punishment as a tool of state intimidation, with disproportionate impact on ethnic minorities and m…
Over the past year, much more death sentences have been executed worldwide, and the United Nations is alarmed.
The United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights denounces an increase in executions, pointing to Iran, Saudi Arabia and the United States.
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