Amnesty 's 2013 death penalty report catalogs encouraging signs , but setbacks in numbers of those sentenced to death . Organization claims that governments around the world are using the threat of terrorism to advance executions . The number of executions worldwide has gone down by almost 22 % compared with annual , but death sentences up by 28 % .
Amnesty 's annual death penalty report catalogs encouraging signs , but setbacks in numbers of those sentenced to death . Organization claims that governments around the world are using the threat of terrorism to advance executions . The number of executions worldwide has gone down by almost 22 % compared with 2013 , but death sentences up by 28 % .