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Annual executions per capita, 2024 and 2025, excluding the Iranian protests:

USA: 1 in 12 million; 1 in 8.6 million

Iran: 1 in 97,000; 1 in 62,000

Good point but I don't understand how you're calculating those numbers. For example there were 1,639 people executed in 2025 for a population of 93.1 million

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