Capital punishment up by 54% in 2015: Amnesty
According to the Amnesty International, twenty five countries executed 1,634 people in 2015-16, a 54% increase compared to the previous year. Amnesty's report said this was the highest number of capital punishment cases in a year since 1989. Amnesty found that the highest number of executions took place in Pakistan where the government executed 326 people last year.