2026年5月18日 / 美国东部时间晚上7:18 / 哥伦比亚广播公司（CBS）新闻
作者：艾米莉·梅·查霍尔（Emily Mae Czachor）
一份新报告显示，去年全球死刑使用量激增，有记录的处决数量达到1981年以来的全球最高值。根据人权组织大赦国际的报告，处决人数增长的大部分来自伊朗，该国年度处决率翻倍。
报告称，2025年全球至少有2707人被处决，但报告同时承认实际总人数可能远高于这一数字。大赦国际表示，据信中国另有数千起处决，但由于该国对死刑做法的保密政策，无法核实相关具体信息。
若不计中国，全球有记录的处决总人数仍比大赦国际报告的2024年全球总数增长了78%。报告称，伊朗至少处决了2159人，是前一年的两倍多。
根据报告，其余处决仅发生在另外16个国家：沙特阿拉伯至少356起；也门至少51起；美国47起；埃及23起；索马里至少17起；科威特17起；新加坡17起；阿富汗6起；阿联酋3起；以及日本、南苏丹和中国台湾地区各1起。
大赦国际表示，该组织还证实伊拉克、朝鲜和越南存在处决或死刑判决，但“缺乏足够信息来提供可信的最低数据”。与中国一样，越南将本国死刑使用情况列为国家机密，而白俄罗斯、老挝和朝鲜的限制性国家报告制度意味着“几乎或完全没有2025年处决相关信息”，该组织说道。
大赦国际
尽管报告中列出了明确处决数据的国家里，伊朗的死刑使用量远超其他国家，但有几个国家去年的处决数字较往年显著升高。据美国死刑信息中心（一家提供死刑数据的美国研究机构）称，沙特阿拉伯2025年的处决人数超过了2024年创下的历史新高，因为该国越来越多地以毒品相关罪名判处死刑。
与此同时，大赦国际的数据显示，2024年至2025年间，科威特的处决人数几乎增长了两倍，埃及、新加坡和美国的处决人数几乎翻倍，其中美国迎来了自2009年以来死刑判决最密集的一年。专家去年11月告诉CBS新闻，美国处决人数大幅上升的原因是多方面的，但至少部分源于政治压力。
日本、南苏丹、中国台湾地区和阿联酋去年都恢复了处决，推高了全球总处决人数。
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这份新报告强调，尽管全球处决人数激增，但应对此负主要责任的国家“仍然是孤立的少数”。中国、埃及、伊朗、伊拉克、朝鲜、沙特阿拉伯、索马里、越南、也门和美国是过去五年来持续执行死刑的同一10个国家，大赦国际称这些国家“无视国际人权法和标准确立的保障措施”。
“这一令人担忧的死刑使用量飙升，源于一小撮不惜一切代价执行处决的孤立国家，尽管全球废除死刑的趋势仍在持续，”大赦国际秘书长阿涅斯·卡拉马尔（Agnès Callamard）在一份声明中说道。“从中国、伊朗、朝鲜和沙特阿拉伯，到也门、科威特、新加坡和美国，这群无耻的少数派正在将死刑作为武器，用以制造恐惧、压制异见，并彰显国家机构对弱势群体和边缘群体的控制力。”
民调数据显示，各国对死刑的看法差异巨大，尽管美国、英国和欧洲部分地区的民调显示，近几十年来民众对死刑的支持率有所下降。根据死刑信息中心的数据，截至2026年，全球已有超过70%的国家在法律上或实践中废除了死刑。
Iran more than doubled executions in 2025 as global use of the death penalty hit 44-year high, report says
May 18, 2026 / 7:18 PM EDT / CBS News
By Emily Mae Czachor
The use of the death penalty skyrocketed last year, with documented executions reaching a worldwide high not seen since 1981, a new report found. A majority of the increase came from Iran, where the annual execution rate doubled, according to the report by human rights organization Amnesty International.
At least 2,707 people were executed globally in 2025, the report said, although it acknowledged the overall count was likely much higher. Amnesty International said thousands of additional executions are believed to have taken place in China, but any concrete information about them could not be verified because of the country’s secrecy surrounding its death penalty practices.
Excluding China, the overall number of documented executions still marked a 78% increase from the global tally that Amnesty International reported for 2024. Iran was responsible for at least 2,159 executions, the report said, more than double the number from the previous year.
According to the report, the remaining executions took place in just 16 different countries: Saudi Arabia, with at least 356; Yemen, with at least 51; the United States, with 47; Egypt, with 23; Somalia, with at least 17; Kuwait, with 17; Singapore, with 17; Afghanistan, with 6; the United Arab Emirates, with 3; and Japan, South Sudan and Taiwan, with one each.
Amnesty International said it was also able to corroborate executions or death sentences in Iraq, North Korea and Vietnam, “but had insufficient information to provide a credible minimum figure.” Like China, Vietnam classifies its use of the death penalty as a state secret, and restrictive state reporting practices in Belarus, Laos and North Korea meant “little or no information was available” regarding executions in 2025, the organization said.
Amnesty International
While Iran’s recorded use of the death penalty far outpaced those of other countries with definitive numbers listed in the report, several had notably higher figures last year than in previous years. Saudi Arabia’s executions in 2025 exceeded what was a record high set in 2024, as the country has increasingly sentenced people to death for drug-related offenses, according to the Death Penalty Information Center, a U.S.-based research organization that provides data on capital punishment.
Meanwhile, according to Amnesty International, executions nearly tripled in Kuwait between 2024 and 2025, and nearly doubled in Egypt, Singapore and the U.S., which had its busiest year for the death penalty since 2009. Experts told CBS News in November that the reasons for such a steep uptick within the U.S. were multifaceted, but that it was at least partly driven by political pressure.
Japan, South Sudan, Taiwan and the UAE all resumed executions last year, contributing to the higher global total.
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The new report emphasized that, despite the surge in executions around the world, the countries most responsible “remain an isolated minority.” China, Egypt, Iran, Iraq, North Korea, Saudi Arabia, Somalia, Vietnam, Yemen and the U.S. are the same 10 nations that have consistently put people to death over the last five years, and Amnesty International said those countries have “shown disregard for safeguards established under international human rights law and standards.”
“This alarming spike in the use of the death penalty is due to a small, isolated group of states willing to carry out executions at all costs, despite the continued global trend towards abolition,” Agnès Callamard, Amnesty International’s secretary general, said in a statement. “From China, Iran, North Korea and Saudi Arabia to Yemen, Kuwait, Singapore and the USA, this shameless minority are weaponizing the death penalty to instill fear, crush dissent and show the strength state institutions have over disadvantaged people and marginalized communities.”
Polling data indicates that regional views on the death penalty vary widely, although surveys conducted in the U.S., the United Kingdom and parts of Europe indicate declining support in recent decades. As of 2026, more than 70% of countries around the world have abolished capital punishment either legally or in practice, according to the Death Penalty Information Center.
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