CHINA, Iran, North Korea, Yemen and the US carried out the most executions last year, bucking a global trend towards abolition of the death penalty, a report said on Monday. China again was by far the world’s most prolific executioner in putting to death thousands, said Amnesty International in its report on the death penalty worldwide.
Amnesty does not provide a precise figure of executions in China as Beijing keeps such figures secret. Instead, it has challenged the Chinese authorities to publish figures for the number of people sentenced to death and executed each year to con firm claims of a reduction in the use of the death penalty. China, however, last year did move to cut down the number of offences that carry the death penalty, which applies to no less than 68 crimes. If the changes go through, the death penalty would be removed for such crimes as tax fraud, and for smuggling valuables and cultural relics.
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