Posted on 04/12/2018 11:06:11 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
China remains the “world’s top executioner” amid a decline in executions worldwide, Amnesty International has said in its annual report on capital punishment.
According to the report, released on Thursday, China implemented “more death sentences than the rest of the world combined”. Amnesty believes thousands of executions and death sentences occurred in 2017 in China, where they are considered a state secret.
China aside, executions worldwide dropped again in 2017, with at least 993 recorded in 23 countries – down 4% from 2016 and 39% from 2015.
At least 2,591 death sentences were recorded in 53 countries in 2017 – down from a record high of 3,117 in 2016 – and at least 21,919 people are known to be under a death sentence, Amnesty said.
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Where does Texas stand?
It seems, we have really slowed down recently.
I am against the Chinese government, but I will say I don’t have a problem with their use of the death penalty and the numbers, given that they have a population of close to 1.5 billion people. And I don’t necessarily have a problem with how they carry them out, if it is a bullet. (I am sure someone will take this paragraph out of context)
What I have a problem with China is HOW those people get to the executioner, and WHAT they get there for, and I DO have a problem with that.
People, a LOT of people, want to forget that it is still a Communist dictatorship in a country that murdered between 50 and 90 million of its own citizens in a period of under five years.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lists_of_people_executed_in_Texas
Mo’people, mo’ executions.
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