From The Economist relying on Amnesty International data.
The United States is the only country which is neither Islamic, nor an avowedly Communist regime, which conducts a large number of executions. A few countries not in either category retain the death penalty and have used it in the past ten years, but none as often as the United States:
Amnesty lists 68 countries which retain the death penalty for ordinary crime, which I have categorized below:
Predominantly Islamic or Islamic Controlled Goverment
AFGHANISTAN, BAHRAIN, BANGLADESH, EGYPT, INDONESIA, IRAN, IRAQ, JORDAN, KUWAIT, LEBANON, LIBYA, MALAYSIA, OMAN, PAKISTAN, PALESTINIAN AUTHORITY, QATAR, SAUDI ARABIA, SOMALIA, SUDAN, SYRIA, UNITED ARAB EMIRATES, YEMEN
Communist or Recently Former Communist
BELARUS, CHINA, CUBA, KAZAKSTAN, KOREA (North), LAOS, MONGOLIA, TAJIKISTAN, UZBEKISTAN, VIET NAM
Other Asia
INDIA, JAPAN, KOREA (South), SINGAPORE, TAIWAN, THAILAND
Other Africa
BOTSWANA, BURUNDI, CAMEROON, CHAD, COMOROS, CONGO (Democratic Republic), EQUATORIAL GUINEA, ERITREA, ETHIOPIA, GUINEA, LESOTHO, NIGERIA, RWANDA, SIERRA LEONE, TANZANIA, UGANDA, ZIMBABWE
Greater Caribbean Basin
ANTIGUA AND BARBUDA, BAHAMAS, BARBADOS, BELIZE, DOMINICA, GUATEMALA, GUYANA, JAMAICA, SAINT CHRISTOPHER & NEVIS, SAINT LUCIA, SAINT VINCENT & GRENADINES, TRINIDAD AND TOBAGO, UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
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