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for more on the general trends of the death penalty in executions while by i'm joined now by lucy graham she is the amnesty deputy director of global issues welcome you see let me start with china your report says it remains the world's leading executioner cincinatti official figures on what io estimates based. the estimates are based on information that we get from people within china and it is important and the size absolutely chime it is one of the disturbing trends that we have seen this year but we've also tried to show that there is some hope that we are witnessing the end of the death penalty so for example if you look at sub-saharan africa this year death sentences and down substantially we now have twenty countries that are abolitionists and hoping various legal developments both in twenty seventeen and that we're seeing in twenty eighteen that show that the world is moving towards the end of the death penalty in terms of what that means for people on death row and then for example which became how delicious in twenty sixteen there were fourteen men that were left in limbo one d

well lucy graham is the head of amnesty international's death penalty team and she joins me now live and lucy very warm welcome to the program thanks for being with us so just tell me more about the report what kind of trends does show more generally there are three key trends that we're seeing this year the first one is definitely a message of hope and that we are witnessing the end of the death penalty there are two of the messages there and one of those is that there is still cause for concern and the third message is absolutely that's why we need to keep on fighting for abolition and that we can't afford to be complacent which other countries that concern you the most in your what are the kind of stories that we don't see in the press or things that we aren't generally witnessing china is definitely one of the biggest causes for concern thousands of people were executed in china last year and the information itself about the exact figures is a state secret having said all of that there is reason for hope this yes if you take the example of south sub-saharan africa we've seen a sub