DUB, I can understand how you would feel about hearing that story BUT I think you have been had.
Let's look at the numbers. For simplicity sake let us take 100 a day and only 5 days a week and 50 weeks a yr. That is 250 X 100 executions giving 25,000 per year. Of course it might only have been once a week so that would give us 5,000 a year.
During 2001, at least 3,048 prisoners were executed in 31 countries and 5,265 people were sentenced to death in 69 countries. These figures include only cases known to Amnesty International; the true figures are certainly higher.
In 2001, 90 per cent of all known executions took place in China, Iran, Saudi Arabia and the USA. In China, the limited and incomplete records available to Amnesty International at the end of the year indicated that at least 2,468 people were executed, but the true figure was believed to be much higher. At least 139 executions were carried out in Iran. In Saudi Arabia, 79 executions were reported, but the total may have been much higher. Sixty-six people were executed in the USA.
Do you still think the story was spot on? Sounds like a bloody lying Iranian to me who has his story down pat to suck us in. Of course I could be wrong.
