{"id":59977,"date":"2024-05-29T16:44:24","date_gmt":"2024-05-29T16:44:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/?p=59977"},"modified":"2024-05-29T16:44:24","modified_gmt":"2024-05-29T16:44:24","slug":"global-use-of-the-death-penalty-rises-to-the-highest-level-since-2015-as-iran-goes-on-a-killing-spree-and-china-continues-to-execute-prisoners-in-their-thousands-amnesty-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/2024\/05\/29\/global-use-of-the-death-penalty-rises-to-the-highest-level-since-2015-as-iran-goes-on-a-killing-spree-and-china-continues-to-execute-prisoners-in-their-thousands-amnesty-says\/","title":{"rendered":"Global use of the death penalty rises to the highest level since 2015 as Iran goes on a killing spree and China continues to execute prisoners &#8216;in their thousands&#8217;, Amnesty says"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-57627\" src=\"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/Iran-prisons-300x168.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"168\" srcset=\"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/Iran-prisons-300x168.jpg 300w, https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/Iran-prisons-360x202.jpg 360w, https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/Iran-prisons.jpg 474w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The number of state-ordered executions recorded worldwide last year jumped to the highest level since 2015, with spikes in\u00a0<span data-track-module=\"internal-body-link\"><a id=\"mol-d38bcf30-1da1-11ef-b01b-87ef53b73686\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/iran\/index.html\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Iran<\/a><\/span> and across the Middle East, Amnesty International said in a new report.\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-13470979\/Global-use-death-penalty-rises-highest-level-2015-Iran-goes-killing-spree-China-continues-execute-prisoners-thousands-Amnesty-says.html\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span>The number of state-ordered executions recorded worldwide last year jumped to the highest level since 2015, with spikes in\u00a0Iran and across the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":59978,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[154],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-59977","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-health"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/Death-Penalty.jpg","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59977","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=59977"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59977\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":59979,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59977\/revisions\/59979"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/59978"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=59977"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=59977"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=59977"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}