--> By Praveen
Human rights watchdog Amnesty International has released the number of executions recorded worldwide in 2016. According to this report, these are the top 10 countries with the highest death penalty in 2016.
*The data for several countries are not available as some of them are prone to secret executions.
China comes in first on this list. With over more than thousand state-sponsored executions and many more secret killings, China retains its top spot.