A total of 2,148 people were executed for crimes committed in 22 countries in 2005, the overwhelming majority of them were put to death in China, Iran, Saudi Arabia and the United States. These figures were published today in Paris during the Third Congress of the World Coalition against the Death Penalty, a group of 53 non-governmental organizations, bar associations and unions. Participants discussed ways to raise awareness, and methods to influence governments worldwide to completely abolish the death penalty. Jan Van Der Made was there and files this report.