China reduced the number of state executions in 2007 per Amnesty International. Chinese officials attributed the reduction to a revamp of the way capital cases are handled.
However, they still lead the world in executions with a reported 470 cases. This is compared to 1010 in 2006.
The actual number comes into question because “death penalty figures are treated as a state secret in China”. There are at least 60 rules that if broken are punished by death in China.
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