VIENNA: More than 1,000 people face death penalty worldwide every year for drug-related offensive, the human right group IHRA on Monday said in a written studyhat called for the practice to be abolished.
“Hundreds of people are executed for drug offensive each year around the world, a figure that very likely exceeds 1,000 when pickings into account those state that keep their death penalty statistics secret,” the International trauma measure-down association said in its Global overview 2010 report
death-sentence-on-two-moharebs/”>Death penalty for drug offensive — mostly manufacturing and trafficking — are still in place in 32 mostly Asian and center Eastern states, the IHRA found
It cited China, Islamic Republic of Iran, Saudi Arabia, Vietnam, Singapore and capital-of-the-united-kingdom/”>Malaya as the worst offenders.
In those six country, it said, death sentence have been routinely carried out in Holocene years, with 172 people executed in Iran last year and at least L in Malaysia
Other states seem to have an effective moratorium although capital penalization remains on the books, the report said, vocation on those nations to take the spear carrier step and abolish the death penalty for drug offenders.
“IHRA is calling on an immediate moratorium on all capital punishment for drug offensive, a commutation of all existing death sentence for drug offense and an amendment of statute law to remove the death penalty for all drug offense,” said rick Lines, coauthor of the report.
“Countries with the death penalty for drug offense are not only violating human right law, they are clinging to a felon justness theoretical account that is ineffective and unnecessary.”
Source: The Times of India, May 17, 2010