死刑

Quality:

Capital punishment - legal process whereby a person is put to death by the state as a punishment for an actual or supposed crime. Article “死刑” in Japanese Wikipedia has 80.8 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 268 references and 31 sections. The article also contains templates indicating quality issues, therefore its score was reduced by 4.25 points.

This article has the best quality in German Wikipedia. However, the most popular language version of this article is English.

Achievements in all the time:

Japanese Wikipedia:

ja

The 2185^th most popular in Japanese Wikipedia.

ja

The 699^th most editable in Japanese Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 840^th most popular in all topics.

The 220^th most popular in AI.

Achievements in the last month:

Japanese Wikipedia:

ja

The 6196^th most popular in Japanese Wikipedia in the last month.

Global Wikipedia:

The 3007^th most popular in all topics in the last month.

The 2087^th most popular in AI in the last month.

In June 2025 the article “死刑” was edited by 2 authors in Japanese Wikipedia and written by 44 authors in all languages (2087^th place).

Since the creation of article “死刑”, its content was written by 389 registered users of Japanese Wikipedia (699^th place) and edited by 10149 registered Wikipedia users in all languages (220^th place).

The article is cited 2521 times in Japanese Wikipedia (3355^th place) and cited 62758 times in all languages (2592^nd place).

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Japanese): #198 in June 2008
• Global: #83 in November 2009

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Japanese): #90 in June 2008
• Global: #182 in April 2008

There are 54 language versions for this article in the WikiRank database (of the considered 55 Wikipedia language editions).

The quality and popularity assessment was based on Wikipédia dumps from July 1, 2025 (including revision history and pageviews for previous years).

The table below shows the language versions of the article with the highest quality.

#	Language	Quality grade	Quality score
1	German (de) Todesstrafe		100
2	Basque (eu) Heriotza zigor		100
3	Esperanto (eo) Mortpuno		99.0476
4	Hungarian (hu) Halálbüntetés		95
5	French (fr) Peine de mort		94.5343
6	English (en) Capital punishment		94.3164
7	Chinese (zh) 死刑		93.122
8	Japanese (ja) 死刑		80.8401
9	Spanish (es) Pena de muerte		78.2582
10	Uzbek (uz) Oʻlim jazosi		77.0108

The following table shows the most popular language versions of the article.

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Capital punishment		36 125 079
2	Spanish (es) Pena de muerte		9 095 873
3	German (de) Todesstrafe		8 880 109
4	Japanese (ja) 死刑		6 606 199
5	French (fr) Peine de mort		5 235 499
6	Russian (ru) Смертная казнь		5 030 222
7	Italian (it) Pena di morte		4 546 052
8	Polish (pl) Kara śmierci		2 903 434
9	Portuguese (pt) Pena de morte		2 883 653
10	Chinese (zh) 死刑		2 090 614

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest popularity in the last month.

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Capital punishment		109 933
2	Russian (ru) Смертная казнь		16 809
3	Japanese (ja) 死刑		16 627
4	German (de) Todesstrafe		15 701
5	Spanish (es) Pena de muerte		12 657
6	Chinese (zh) 死刑		10 577
7	Persian (fa) اعدام		7 228
8	Italian (it) Pena di morte		5 602
9	Polish (pl) Kara śmierci		5 089
10	French (fr) Peine de mort		4 914

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest.

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Capital punishment		2 564
2	German (de) Todesstrafe		1 279
3	French (fr) Peine de mort		841
4	Italian (it) Pena di morte		409
5	Spanish (es) Pena de muerte		408
6	Japanese (ja) 死刑		389
7	Russian (ru) Смертная казнь		345
8	Dutch (nl) Doodstraf		327
9	Polish (pl) Kara śmierci		291
10	Chinese (zh) 死刑		270

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest in the last month.

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Capital punishment		11
2	German (de) Todesstrafe		8
3	Turkish (tr) Ölüm cezası		4
4	Russian (ru) Смертная казнь		3
5	Persian (fa) اعدام		2
6	French (fr) Peine de mort		2
7	Indonesian (id) Hukuman mati		2
8	Japanese (ja) 死刑		2
9	Korean (ko) 사형		2
10	Polish (pl) Kara śmierci		2

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest number of citations.

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