NCRI – The Amnesty International put out its annual repot on death penalty on Tuesday. The Iranian regime was only behind China in carry out executions last year in the world.
At least 346 people were put to death in Iran, some by stoning and hanging, including eight juveniles, according to the report.
The number of executions worldwide nearly doubled last year compared with 2007, according to Amnesty International.
Amnesty said at least 2,390 people were executed worldwide in 2008, compared with its 2007 figure of at least 1,252.
The rights group welcomed the UN General Assembly’s call for a global moratorium on the death penalty and said it marked “three decades of steady progress” on the issue.
Iran was one of the only five countries in the world that objected in November when the United Nations General Assembly voted to support a global moratorium on the death penalty.
In all, 59 countries still have the death penalty on their books, but only 25 carried out executions last year. Two nations, Uzbekistan and Argentina, banned the death penalty last year.