Amnesty International’s annual worldwide survey “Death Sentences and Executions 2014”, comes out today. The report covers executions, death sentences and other issues related to the use of the death penalty. The human rights NGO claims there was little or no information available countries like Malaysia, North Korea and Syria, last year, due to restrictive state practice and/or political instability. We explore.

Sharyl Kaur, Melanie Abraham and Muhammad Haniff Baharudin contributed to this report.