1. China
Speaking of China drug laws punishments, in June this year 13 drug dealers were sentenced to death, which is why this country occupies the first place on our list of top 12 countries that have the death penalty or use capital punishment for drugs. Media around the world reported that eight convicts were executed right after the trial which was conducted in front of 10,000 people. It should be said that there is no exact data on the number of people who were executed in China in recent years since executions are the state secret. Amnesty International estimates that thousands of prisoners were killed in 2016 alone while HRI reports that at least 600 people were executed with hundreds more on the death row because of drug trafficking in 2014.
