Executions in the U.S. were down last year. But the country still put more inmates to death than most other nations.

The Washington Post: Capital punishment continued its steady decline in the United States last year, with death sentences and executions dropping to levels unseen for decades. But despite this shift, the country remains among the world’s leaders in the death penalty, putting more inmates to death in 2015 than most other nations.

The United States came in at No. 5 — again — on the list of countries that carried out executions last year, according to a new Amnesty International report released Tuesday night:

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