Dawn's Digression.
Monday, March 15, 2004
China executes 10,000 people a year.
Wow, I bet that saves them some money in their jail system.
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Yahoo! News - China executes 10,000 people a year: NPC delegate: "people were executed in China in 2002.
While China is notorious for its liberal use of the death penalty, it has held the number of people executed each year as a closely guarded state secret.
'We have never published such a figure so we do not know where Chen Zhonglin got this number,' a spokesman at China's Supreme People's Court told AFP Monday.
'We cannot comment on this figure"
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Yahoo! News - China executes 10,000 people a year: NPC delegate: "people were executed in China in 2002.
While China is notorious for its liberal use of the death penalty, it has held the number of people executed each year as a closely guarded state secret.
'We have never published such a figure so we do not know where Chen Zhonglin got this number,' a spokesman at China's Supreme People's Court told AFP Monday.
'We cannot comment on this figure"
Dawn, 10:29 AM
