Execution Numbers down in 2016:Amesty

An international rights group says there were fewer executions recorded globally last year. In its yearly report on the death penalty, Amnesty International says just over a thousand people were executed around the world in 2016. But this figure does not include executions in China, where data on the death penalty is considered a state secret.

Demonstrations in Quezon to oppose the revival of the death penalty by the Philippine Congress Source: AAP

Michelle Chen reports