China tops world in executions - Amnesty International...

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http://www.cbc.ca/world/story/2008/04/15/china-execution.html

China defended its use of the death penalty Tuesday, after an Amnesty International report said it carried out the most executions worldwide in 2007.

According to the human rights group, China led the world in executions with at least 470, with most killed by a gunshot to the back of the head or by lethal injection.

China responded to the report by saying it tightly controls the use of the death penalty and has no plans to abolish it.

"We have strictly controlled and taken a prudent attitude toward the death penalty to ensure that the death penalty only applies to a small number of criminals who commit serious crimes," said Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Jiang Yu.

Yet another reason to protest Beijing 2008.

Sid

[enid602]

1. Bushco

Condi and Cheney will be LIVID if this gets out!

[SidDithers]

2. Self-serving kick...

'specially for our resident Beijing Bob.

Sid

[Aristus]

3. Oh damn! The Freepers are going to be furious that they don't have something else

to jump up and down about and shout "We're Number 1!"

[DFW]

4. When Bush heard about this

He immediately called Cheney to angrily demand why China had overtaken us as number one.

After all, if we can't lead in this field, how is the world going to look to us for
leadership in any other field? Huh? Fire up them 'lectric chairs!