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Interesting chart of world-wide execution numbers for 2009

By Douglas A. Berman

The Economist has this interesting chart which spotlights various nations' execution numbers for 2009.  The chart comes from this little article, which is headlined "China and the death penalty: High executioners." Here is the text that accompanies the graphic: China executes more of its own citizens than any other country, and more than all others in the world combined. ?Thousands? of Chinese were executed in 2009 according to Amnesty International's annual study, which states that an exact number is impossible to determine because information on the death penalty is regarded as a state secret. But this gruesome record may yet change. The National People's Congress is reported to be reducing the number of offences that are punishable by execution...continue to full post

Full post as published by Sentencing Law and Policy on July 29, 2010 (boomark / email).