Top 12 Countries That Have the Death Penalty or Use Capital Punishment for Drugs

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11. Sri Lanka

No execution was carried out in Sri Lanka while 79 prisoners were put on the death row last year. Among them, there was one foreigner who was sentenced to death for drug trafficking. HRI notes that 12 people received capital punishment for drug-related crimes between 2012 and 2014, but none of them was executed.

Top 12 Countries That Have the Death Penalty or Use Capital Punishment for Drugs

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