From beheadings to firing squads…World’s deadliest year for executions in DECADE with Iran & China crowned globe’s worst

THE world has seen its deadliest year for executions in a decade, with Iran and China crowned the worst globally.

Various methods of execution used in countries – including the US – include beheading, hanging, lethal injection, shooting and nitrogen gas asphyxiation.

AFPFive people hang from the nooses after they were executed in Iran in 2007[/caption] A woman, convicted of murder, shouts as she hears the verdict before being taken to be executed in the southern Chinese city...