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Originally Posted by jorgelito
Thanks Mr. Self Destruct. I hadn't heard this news before. You know, China is the biggest executor of criminals in the world. More than the entire rest of the list combined. I think it goes China, Saudi Arabia, Vietnam? (or Burma one of those SE countries), US....
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In 2004, 97 per cent of all known executions took place in China, Iran, Viet Nam and the USA.
59 prisoners were executed in the USA in 2004, bringing the year-end total to 944 executed since the use of the death penalty was resumed in 1977.
Over 3,400 prisoners were under sentence of death as of 1 January 2005.
38 of the 50 US states provide for the death penalty in law.
The USA executed more child offenders than any other country (19 between 1990 and 2003).
A United Nations survey of research findings, conducted in 1988 and updated in 1996, found no evidence of the death penalty being a more effective deterrent than other penalties
61% of the countries in the world have now effectively abolished the death penalty.
Mr Mephisto