Reply #40: Not even close

[JonQ]

China admits to 1718 executions in 2008, Texas had 18. Accounting for the difference in population that still leaves china with an execution rate of nearly double Texas'.

And that's only the ones they admit to. Amnesty international, that rightwing, pro-texas organization, claims that china executes on average 22 people every *day*, they just don't state that officially. Which makes the real total over 8000 a year, making their rate .6/100,000 or 8 times ours. And we actually do have trials (every murder conviction immediately goes to a retrial) and execute them by lethal injection. We don't grab them from their houses in the night and execute them in some back alley for crimes against the state.

Comparing the two is absurd.