Death penalty 2011: Alarming levels of executions in the few countries that kill

Headline Title:  Death penalty 2011 report 27 March 2012 Countries that carried out executions in 2011 did so at an alarming rate but those employing capital punishment have decreased by more than a third compared to a decade ago, Amnesty International found in its annual review of death sentences and executions. Only 10 percent of countries in the world, 20 out of 198, carried out executions