China executed more people than rest of world combined: AI

[perplexed]

HONG KONG: China sentenced thousands of people to death last year even as the rest of the world's combined number dropped, Amnesty International said today.

The London-based group said it could not determine the exact number of executions in China because the figure is listed as a state secret, but it estimated that China executed thousands of people in 2010 for ''a wide range of crimes that include nonviolent offences and after proceedings that did not meet international fair trial standards.''

The number of executions elsewhere, according to the group's annual report, went down from at least 714 people in 2009 to at least 527 in 2010, while at least 23 countries carried out judicial executions in 2010, four more than 2009.

China, Japan, Saudi Arabia and the United States were four of the G20 countries that executed people last year.

The group acknowledged steps China has taken to reduce executions, including the Supreme People's Court's decision to review all death penalty cases since 2007.

It has overturned an average 10 percent of the cases reviewed.

China has also moved to throw out evidence illegally obtained through torture or coerced confessions and has proposed reducing the kinds of capital crimes and exempting convicts over 75 years of age from being executed.

Still, the group ''challenged the Chinese authorities to publish figures for the number of people sentenced to death and executed each year to confirm their claims there has been a reduction in the use of the death penalty in the country.''

Excluding China, Iran executed at least 252 people, followed by North Korea with at least 60 executions, Yemen with at least 53 and the United States with 46.

China executed more people than rest of world combined: AI - The Times of India

 

[Jackdaws]

Just read this on ToI - so barbaric this regime is. Apparently, they even executed a mentally unstable Brit. If foreigners are treated this way, we can only guess how the poor Chinese citizens must be surviving here. My prayers and condolences are with the Chinese people.

 

[metro]

No matter how strong the evil is, sooner or later it will come to an end.

 

[cross1993]

Carrying more than 50 grams of drugs, that is a capital offense in China. Most China's death row is the drug traffickers.

No matter how strong the evil is, sooner or later it will come to an end.

Yes, So the evil will perish who support drug crimes.

Just read this on ToI - so barbaric this regime is. Apparently, they even executed a mentally unstable Brit. If foreigners are treated this way, we can only guess how the poor Chinese citizens must be surviving here. My prayers and condolences are with the Chinese people.

The Brit is a drug dealer, You mean that foreign criminals can not be punished in India?

 

[chinautumn]

Just read this on ToI - so barbaric this regime is. Apparently, they even executed a mentally unstable Brit. If foreigners are treated this way, we can only guess how the poor Chinese citizens must be surviving here. My prayers and condolences are with the Chinese people.

NO need your prayers and condolences!you should care your country first.Indians kill each other everyday in the name of religion and caste more than the criminals executed in China.crazy

 

[conworldus]

And thus China is one of the SAFEST countries in the world. The country with highest execution per capita is Singapore and everyone knows how safe it is and how so many Indians stay there illegally.

 

[perplexed]

NO need your prayers and condolences!you should care your country first.Indians kill each other everyday in the name of religion and caste more than the criminals executed in China.crazy

Drug trafficking is a capital punishment is your internal matter. But when u people say chinese are good people does not stack up well with the fact that so many people are being convicted for it ?

Also, It is not as if drug traffickers are inexistent in other countries. Besides, executions in china more than sum of all other countries ? Do you see any problem ?

And, INDIANs had their fair share of communal riots, agreed. But communal riots in INDIA is an excuse to derail this thread. Afterall, no govt of any sane country can ever pull off a TIANANMEN SQUARE

 

[Tractor]

It is awful that showing up some execution pics via net affect people's mentality badly.

 

[applesauce]

Drug trafficking is a capital punishment is your internal matter. But when u people say chinese are good people does not stack up well with the fact that so many people are being convicted for it ?

Also, It is not as if drug traffickers are inexistent in other countries. Besides, executions in china more than sum of all other countries ? Do you see any problem ?

And, INDIANs had their fair share of communal riots, agreed. But communal riots in INDIA is an excuse to derail this thread. Afterall, no govt of any sane country can ever pull off a TIANANMEN SQUARE

and tell me what is the population of china compared to those countries such as the US? should be looking at prisoners per capita here and in that area chinas ratio is not bad. And you said not sane country can pull a Tienanmen square? you need to read up on your history, specifically on the protests of the past, plenty of examples of government suppressing protests, unless your suggesting many of these countries arnt sane such as the US, UK, and yes INDIA

 

[ares]

Hey is it true..in China the prisoners, who are on death row are harvested for their organs and no particular date is set by the courts for the executions. prisoners can be executed any day after their sentence is due??

 

[oct605032048]

Drug trafficking is a capital punishment is your internal matter. But when u people say chinese are good people does not stack up well with the fact that so many people are being convicted for it ?

Also, It is not as if drug traffickers are inexistent in other countries. Besides, executions in china more than sum of all other countries ? Do you see any problem ?

And, INDIANs had their fair share of communal riots, agreed. But communal riots in INDIA is an excuse to derail this thread. Afterall, no govt of any sane country can ever pull off a TIANANMEN SQUARE

I see it is a domestic issue and wonder and wonder what logic would make you bring in the old story 20 years before to this thread?

Making a gesture of friend or to make other people look bad?

 

[SEAL]

Doesn't matter Indians are Pakistan centric.

 

[DelhiDareDevil]

Well to be honest, a non democratic nation, is expected to have more death sentences.

 

[oct605032048]

Actually people are calling not to pardon the one who deserve the sentence. But lawyers are a group calling to reduce the excution so they get more bloody money from the criminals.

 

[oct605032048]

Well to be honest, a non democratic nation, is expected to have more death sentences.

Waste taxpayers' millions dollars on the life-sentence prisoners is considered another crime here.