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by culi 62 days ago
US prisoners per capita: 715

Iran prisoners per capita: 226

Particularly interesting to me is how prisoners in Iran have the right to vote while prisoners in the US can have their vote taken away.
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dingaling 62 days ago
Annual executions per capita, 2024 and 2025, excluding the Iranian protests:

USA: 1 in 12 million; 1 in 8.6 million

Iran: 1 in 97,000; 1 in 62,000

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culi 61 days ago
Good point but I don't understand how you're calculating those numbers. For example there were 1,639 people executed in 2025 for a population of 93.1 million
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