The walking dead isn't just the subject of a gory drama on television. Amnesty International's latest figures for 2011 show 18,750 people were living under a death sentence in 2011. 

As usual, Iran, North Korea, Somalia and Saudi Arabia carried out public executions to terrorist the populace and keep them in line.

Also as usual, the despotic regimes of the Middle East tried to lead the way in bloodshed, though we can suspect that the Chinese have no close rival in this regard:

There were at least 360 judicial killings in Iran (up from 252+ in 2010), at least 82 in Saudi Arabia (up from 27+), and at least 68 in Iraq (up from 1+). However, as in previous years, the figures do not include the thousands of prisoners thought to have been executed in China, and Amnesty has also received credible reports that a large number of unacknowledged executions took place in Iran, executions that would almost double the number of 'official' ones there.

But there is another story here aside from the horrific scale of the terror in certain rogue countries. Interestingly, the video produced by Amnesty International (seen above)...More >>