check out: http://encarta.msn.com/media_461543496/Capital_Punishment_Worldwide.html

quote from: http://www.hrw.org/wr2k/Mena-03.htm

"Egypt's criminal, state security, and military courts continued to impose capital punishment on defendants in criminal and political trials. Amnesty International reported that in 1998 the courts issued seventy-four death sentences and forty-eight individuals were executed; in 1999, sixty-two people had been sentenced to death and thirteen executed as of August 10."