CHINA
China Urged to Come Clean About “Grotesque” Level of Capital Punishment
Simon Denyer, WASHINGTON POST
China is the world’s biggest executioner, putting to death considerably more people every year than the rest of the world combined. Yet its “horrifying” use of the death penalty remains shrouded in secrecy and plagued by injustice, Amnesty International says in a new report. “China must come clean about the ‘grotesque’ level of capital punishment,” Amnesty said in a news release accompanying its 2016 global review of the death penalty. Excluding China, other states put 1,032 people to death in 2016. China’s official death penalty figures are …read more
Source: Victims of Communism