Men executed, women most affected

Men’s rights activists often talk about the empathy gap, but there cannot be a clearer example of the empathy gap than this.

Around the world, men are more likely to be sentenced to the death penalty than women. There are even countries where only men can be executed.

In the United States of America, during the year 2020, 17 people were executed. All of them were male. Since the year 1976, 1,540 people were executed, 1,523 of them were male. Men represented 99% of those executed.

According to Amnesty International, the top countries with the highest number of executions were China, Iran, Egypt, Iraq, and Saudi Arabia. Data for China is inaccessible or low quality, so excluding that, these four countries executed approximately 425 individuals. So says the factsheet, “Amnesty International recorded that 16 women were among the 483 people known to have been executed in 2020 (3%), in the following countries: Egypt (4), Iran (9), Oman (1), Saudi Arabia (2).

Egypt recorded at least 107 executions in 2020, making men more than 96% of the executed. Iran executed at least 246 people, making men more than 96% of the executed. Saudi Arabia was slightly more equitable with men being ‘only’ 92% of those executed. However, this is an unusually low number for the middle eastern nation, as in 2019, numbers were much higher, “The kingdom executed 178 men and six women in 2019, just over half of whom were foreign nationals” This would make men around 97% of those executed.

But the obvious anti-male bias extends much further than this. In a number of countries, it is actually illegal to send a woman to her death, but it is fine to do it to a man. One example is Belarus. According to article 59 of the law, women cannot be given life imprisonment, or be executed. In Russia, a similar principle is followed. Both article 57 and 59 of the criminal code contains misandrist laws. Article 57 says women cannot be sentenced to life in prison, while article 59 says women cannot be sentenced to death. Both of these men can be sentenced to. I’m guessing Pussy Riot isn’t going to be asking for equality in this.

Guatemala is yet another country where such a law applies, where it says, about the death penalty, “However, it does not apply in cases of political crimes, women, men over 60 years of age and youths below the age of

criminal responsibility” As well as Tajikistan, in Article 59 (2) of the Criminal code, women cannot be given the death penalty, but men can.

In total, men made up around 97% of those executed around the world. I wonder where The PatriarchyTM is to save them? But never mind, maybe it goofs, but apparently not, according to some.

The World Coalition against the death penalty dedicated 10th October 2021 to the women who are executed or sentenced to be executed. Now why would they dedicate this one day a year to the three percent of those who were faced with the death penalty? Well because women are discriminated against, of course!

“Extensive discrimination based on sex and gender, often coupled with other elements of identity, such as age, sexual orientation, disability, and race expose women to intersecting forms of structural inequalities. Such prejudices can weigh heavily on sentencing, including when women are stereotyped as an evil mother, a witch, or a femme fatale. This discrimination can also lead to critical mitigating factors not being considered during arrest and trial, such as being subjected to gender-based violence and abuse.”

The PatriarchyTM is so incompetent that with all of the ‘structural inequalities’ that they only managed to get 3% of the executed to be their enemy. It is definitely not because men are punished worse in the justice system.

And it’s also not as if men are victims of gender-based violence as well.

It is a huge issue that executions primarily affect men, and it is a gender-based issue. Even though people ignore systemic sexism against men, it is a real issue.