Chad reintroduces death penalty. Which other countries use it?
Chad has beefed up its security in recent weeks after a spate of deadly attacks by Boko Haram.
A police officer stands guard near the site of a suicide bombing in Ndjamena, Chad on July 11, 2015.
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Amid several suicide bombings in the past few months, Chad reintroduced the death penalty for acts of terrorism.
The Chadian parliament voted unanimously on Thursday to reauthorize the death penalty, six months after its abolition, .
Chad has beefed up its security in recent weeks, following a spate of deadly Boko Haram attacks.
On June 17, the country banned people from wearing burqas, or full-face veil, two days after two suicide bombers .
Despite the ban, on July 11 a Boko Haram suicide bomber man dressed in a woman鈥檚 burqa blew himself up in the capital鈥檚 main market, . Now Chad has aimed at .
The country also opened a two-week campaign against Boko Haram, during which the government says its forces killed 117 insurgents, .
Chad is the second country that has decided in the past few months to attempt to deter terrorism by resuming the death penalty.
Last March, Pakistan also in terror cases. On July 29, the United Nations urged Pakistan .
The UN says the death penalty that, if used at all, should only be imposed for the most serious crimes, 鈥渁fter a fair trial that respects the most stringent due process guarantees as stipulated in international human rights law.鈥�
In July 2014, UN Secretary-General 鈥淒eath penalty has no place in 21st century鈥� and urged countries to stop the practice.
Currently, have either abolished the death penalty or do not practice it. But there are still dozens of countries that carry out death sentences.
In December 2014, the Guardian analyzed Amnesty International data and concluded that at in 58 countries in 2012, which showed a decrease from 2011 with 1,923 executions in 63 countries worldwide.
The Guardian reported in 2013 in 22 countries. In 2014, Amnesty International said the number of recorded death sentences , compared to 2013.
Last year, China had the highest rate of the executions. Amnesty believes thousands were executed.
The other countries topping the list were Iran, with 289 officially and at least 454 unannounced executions; Saudi Arabia, with at least 90 executions; Iraq, with at least 61 executions; and the . The United States is the only G7 country that still executes people.
, Amnesty International data shows that in 2014 the number of death sentences handed down experienced a dramatic increase but there was a drop in the number of executions carried out.