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Amnesty report: Death sentences up, executions down

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April 11, 2017

Amnesty International publishes its annual statistics on the death penalty, which has been completely abolished in only 104 of 198 countries. It remains extremely difficult to obtain verifiable data for the People's Republic of China. The Chinese government treats executions as a state secret. There are official statistics, but they are believed to be heavily sugarcoated.

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