China holds the current world record of executions with executing 1,010 people of 1,591 confirmed executions worldwide. Although the Beijing Olympic committee declared that hosting the Olympics will ‘help the development of human rights in China’.
• China executed more people in the last three months than the rest of the world did in the past three years, as per the human rights group Amnesty International.
• China currently uses capital punishment for many crimes, ranging from tax evasion, corruption and racketeering to murder.
• China is one of the few countries now using capital punishment, and its rate of executions is disproportionately more common than in any other.
• China has held more executions annually than any other nation; in 2006 it executed as many as ten times more people than the country ranked second.
• China’s use of capital punishment for minor crimes is often cited as one of the many human rights problems within the country
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China holds the current world record of executions with executing 1,010 people of 1,591 confirmed executions worldwide. Although the Beijing Olympic committee declared that hosting the Olympics will ‘help the development of human rights in China’.
• China executed more people in the last three months than the rest of the world did in the past three years, as per the human rights group Amnesty International.
• China currently uses capital punishment for many crimes, ranging from tax evasion, corruption and racketeering to murder.
• China is one of the few countries now using capital punishment, and its rate of executions is disproportionately more common than in any other.
• China has held more executions annually than any other nation; in 2006 it executed as many as ten times more people than the country ranked second.
• China’s use of capital punishment for minor crimes is often cited as one of the many human rights problems within the country
Join the fight against death penalty
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