As the third anniversary of the execution of Australians Andrew Chan and Myuran Sukumaran approaches, the federal government is being urged to ramp up pressure on Asia-Pacific nations still using the death penalty.
A new Amnesty International report released on Thursday shows signs of progress in the region, with Indonesia executing no one last year.
There was also a decrease in the number of death sentences imposed for drug crime in the Asian nation.
Late last year, Malaysia scrapped mandatory death sentencing for drug offences.
Despite some improvements, Amnesty International Australia's Rose Kulak said the government must live up to its promise to use its UN Human Rights Council seat to push for abolition.
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"A world without the death penalty is possible, with these new figures showing 142 countries have ended the death penalty in law or practice," Ms Kulak said.
She called on the government to release its death penalty strategy.
"We have reached the tipping point. Most countries won't have a bar of this horrendous form of punishment and those countries still executing are increasingly isolated," Mr Kulak said.
The report found 93 people were executed throughout the Asia-Pacific region last year, a 28 per cent decline from 2016.
But the figures don't include China - which Amnesty believes carried out thousands of executions last year - North Korea or Vietnam.
Those countries don't publish death penalty statistics.
Asia-Pacific has the highest proportion of countries (10) which have the death penalty available for drug offences.
Globally, the report recorded at least 993 executions in 23 countries in 2017, down four per cent from 2016.
Last year's figures were 39 per cent less than 2015 when 1634 executions were recorded, the highest number since 1989.
Chan and Sukumaran were executed on April 29, 2015.
