Hanging
Execution by hanging is the most common method of capital punishment. Iran – where 369 people were reported executed in 2013 – leads the world in hangings.
On April 26, an Iranian prisoner was publicly hanged after being convicted of rape. Another Iranian, convicted of murder for killing a youth with a knife in a street fight in 2007, was hanged on April 15.
Other countries that carried out hangings in 2013 include Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Botswana, India, Iraq, Japan, Kuwait, Malaysia, Nigeria, the Palestinian Authority in Gaza, South Sudan and Sudan.
The last person to be hanged in the United States was convicted murderer William Bailey in 1996 in Delaware.
Electrocution
The United States is the only country to exercise capital punishment using electrocution in 2013.
Robert Gleason Jr., 42, convicted of murdering two inmates on separate occasions, was executed using the electric chair in Virginia on Jan. 16, 2013.
Previous electric chair executions sparked outrage. In 1997, convicted murderer Pedro Medina was executed by the electric chair in Florida. His head burst into flames during the procedure. Also in Florida, in 1999, convicted murderer Allen Lee Davis was executed in an electric chair. Photos of his bloodied face appeared online.
In, 2008, the Nebraska Supreme Court declared execution by electrocution illegal for being "cruel and unusual.
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