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Amnesty International Report

By Steve Hall

The report is, Death Sentences and Executions 2009, is in Adobe .pdf format.  Amnesty International's USA landing page has video.The press release announcing the report is, "Amnesty International Challenges China's Continued Secrecy in Death Penalty Executions.  Texas is first in executions in the U.S.; 7th in the world."In a new report, Death Sentences and Executions in 2009, released today, Amnesty International challenged the Chinese authorities to reveal how many people they execute and sentence to death annually. The new report reveals that 714 people were executed in 18 countries, and 2001 people were sentenced to death in 56 countries in 2009. However, it does not include the thousands of executions that were likely to have taken place in China, where information on the death penalty remains a state secret...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on March 31, 2010 (boomark / email).