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Death Sentences and Executions in 2008

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That's the title of Amnesty International's latest report looking at capital punishment around the world.  The report is here.  It's available in other languages here.  This is from the news release:Death Penalty: 2,390 executions in 2008 worldwide, 72 per cent in ChinaAmnesty International today revealed that more people were executed in Asia than in any other part of the world in 2008 because China carried out more executions than the rest of the world put together. By contrast, in Europe only one country continues to use the death penalty: Belarus."The death penalty is the ultimate cruel, inhuman and degrading punishment. Beheadings, electrocutions, hangings, lethal injections, shootings and stonings have no place in the 21st century," said Irene Khan, Secretary General of Amnesty International...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on March 24, 2009 (boomark / email).

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