Amnesty Internationa: China executed more people in 2016, than all other nations combined.

[AsianTrumpSupporter]

China remains world's biggest executioner — Amnesty - News

BEIJING, China (AFP) — China executed more people in 2016 than all other nations combined, Amnesty International said Tuesday, as death penalties in the world decreased overall.

The human rights organisation estimates the Asian giant alone killed "thousands" of people, a figure based on examinations of court records and news reports.

All other countries together executed at least 1,032 people last year -- a decline of 37 per cent compared to 2015.

China was one of four countries, including Iran, Saudi Arabia, and Iraq, that were responsible for 87 per cent of all executions last year, the activist group said.


Amnesty's report found that hundreds of death sentences, including cases involving foreign nationals, had been omitted from China's public database of court verdicts, suggesting a concerted effort to hide the extent of the country's killings.

The ruling Communist Party considers the death toll a state secret.

"China is really the only country that has such a complete regime of secrecy over executions," Amnesty's East Asia director Nicholas Bequelin said at a press conference in Hong Kong...

I support the death penalty here in America, but this sounds more like Stalin's murderous purges. And, as usual, it's a leftist country that lacks transparency.

 

[frigidweirdo]

China remains world's biggest executioner — Amnesty - News

BEIJING, China (AFP) — China executed more people in 2016 than all other nations combined, Amnesty International said Tuesday, as death penalties in the world decreased overall.

The human rights organisation estimates the Asian giant alone killed "thousands" of people, a figure based on examinations of court records and news reports.

All other countries together executed at least 1,032 people last year -- a decline of 37 per cent compared to 2015.

China was one of four countries, including Iran, Saudi Arabia, and Iraq, that were responsible for 87 per cent of all executions last year, the activist group said.


Amnesty's report found that hundreds of death sentences, including cases involving foreign nationals, had been omitted from China's public database of court verdicts, suggesting a concerted effort to hide the extent of the country's killings.

The ruling Communist Party considers the death toll a state secret.

"China is really the only country that has such a complete regime of secrecy over executions," Amnesty's East Asia director Nicholas Bequelin said at a press conference in Hong Kong...

I support the death penalty here in America, but this sounds more like Stalin's murderous purges. And, as usual, it's a leftist country that lacks transparency.

But then it also has the world's largest population.

 

[xband]

People in Thailand who are executed bend over and look at the National Flower of Thailand just before the bullet is put in the back of the skull. Quick death and the last thing you see is a beautiful flower.

 

[frigidweirdo]

China remains world's biggest executioner — Amnesty - News

BEIJING, China (AFP) — China executed more people in 2016 than all other nations combined, Amnesty International said Tuesday, as death penalties in the world decreased overall.

The human rights organisation estimates the Asian giant alone killed "thousands" of people, a figure based on examinations of court records and news reports.

All other countries together executed at least 1,032 people last year -- a decline of 37 per cent compared to 2015.

China was one of four countries, including Iran, Saudi Arabia, and Iraq, that were responsible for 87 per cent of all executions last year, the activist group said.


Amnesty's report found that hundreds of death sentences, including cases involving foreign nationals, had been omitted from China's public database of court verdicts, suggesting a concerted effort to hide the extent of the country's killings.

The ruling Communist Party considers the death toll a state secret.

"China is really the only country that has such a complete regime of secrecy over executions," Amnesty's East Asia director Nicholas Bequelin said at a press conference in Hong Kong...

I support the death penalty here in America, but this sounds more like Stalin's murderous purges. And, as usual, it's a leftist country that lacks transparency.

Some perspective.

Georgia with a population of 10 million, executed 9 people in 2016. That's 1 execution for every 1.1 million people. No one knows how many were killed in China. If 1,000 people were killed then this would be a lower rate than Georgia. If Georgia had a population the size of China's, it would have executed nearly 1,200 people in 2016.

 

[shockedcanadian]

I'm sure all of the socialist countries will say it was "fair justice" and they had due process. I wonder how many were executed on trumped up charges or because they had a political opinion and were courageous enough to share it?

 

[frigidweirdo]

I'm sure all of the socialist countries will say it was "fair justice" and they had due process. I wonder how many were executed on trumped up charges or because they had a political opinion and were courageous enough to share it?

They have a tendency of executing people for white collar crimes. In the US executions are never for the political classes or the rich, they look after their own.

I remember one case in China where a woman basically scammed people out of millions of dollars, so they executed her.

 

[Correll]

China remains world's biggest executioner — Amnesty - News

BEIJING, China (AFP) — China executed more people in 2016 than all other nations combined, Amnesty International said Tuesday, as death penalties in the world decreased overall.

The human rights organisation estimates the Asian giant alone killed "thousands" of people, a figure based on examinations of court records and news reports.

All other countries together executed at least 1,032 people last year -- a decline of 37 per cent compared to 2015.

China was one of four countries, including Iran, Saudi Arabia, and Iraq, that were responsible for 87 per cent of all executions last year, the activist group said.


Amnesty's report found that hundreds of death sentences, including cases involving foreign nationals, had been omitted from China's public database of court verdicts, suggesting a concerted effort to hide the extent of the country's killings.

The ruling Communist Party considers the death toll a state secret.

"China is really the only country that has such a complete regime of secrecy over executions," Amnesty's East Asia director Nicholas Bequelin said at a press conference in Hong Kong...

I support the death penalty here in America, but this sounds more like Stalin's murderous purges. And, as usual, it's a leftist country that lacks transparency.

Some perspective.

Georgia with a population of 10 million, executed 9 people in 2016. That's 1 execution for every 1.1 million people. No one knows how many were killed in China. If 1,000 people were killed then this would be a lower rate than Georgia. If Georgia had a population the size of China's, it would have executed nearly 1,200 people in 2016.

Also, there are a lot of murderers in this country that should be executed but are not.

 

[martybegan]

I'm sure all of the socialist countries will say it was "fair justice" and they had due process. I wonder how many were executed on trumped up charges or because they had a political opinion and were courageous enough to share it?

They have a tendency of executing people for white collar crimes. In the US executions are never for the political classes or the rich, they look after their own.

I remember one case in China where a woman basically scammed people out of millions of dollars, so they executed her.

it's mostly because we only execute people for murder, and usually only really really bad ones, premeditated, when done in the commission of another crime, multiple (either spree or serial) or for killing cops.

It has less to do with economic or political might and more to do with poor people just tend to murder more than rich ones. Correlation if not causation.

 

[Vikrant]

I'm sure all of the socialist countries will say it was "fair justice" and they had due process. I wonder how many were executed on trumped up charges or because they had a political opinion and were courageous enough to share it?

They have a tendency of executing people for white collar crimes. In the US executions are never for the political classes or the rich, they look after their own.

I remember one case in China where a woman basically scammed people out of millions of dollars, so they executed her.

it's mostly because we only execute people for murder, and usually only really really bad ones, premeditated, when done in the commission of another crime, multiple (either spree or serial) or for killing cops.

It has less to do with economic or political might and more to do with poor people just tend to murder more than rich ones. Correlation if not causation.

A majority of people who are executed in China are those who voice political opinions against CCP. If the executed person was healthy, his/her organs are harvested for the benefit of Chinese oligarchs.

 

[esthermoon]

Honestly I'm not sure China is the "world leader" in executions.
I read Saudi Arabia excutes 100 people since January 1 2017 to this day...
Maybe Saudi Arabia executes inmates sentenced to death more than China

 

[RodISHI]

I'm sure all of the socialist countries will say it was "fair justice" and they had due process. I wonder how many were executed on trumped up charges or because they had a political opinion and were courageous enough to share it?

They have a tendency of executing people for white collar crimes. In the US executions are never for the political classes or the rich, they look after their own.

I remember one case in China where a woman basically scammed people out of millions of dollars, so they executed her.

They also executed the ones that tainted the baby formula didn't they?

 

[esthermoon]

China remains world's biggest executioner — Amnesty - News

BEIJING, China (AFP) — China executed more people in 2016 than all other nations combined, Amnesty International said Tuesday, as death penalties in the world decreased overall.

The human rights organisation estimates the Asian giant alone killed "thousands" of people, a figure based on examinations of court records and news reports.

All other countries together executed at least 1,032 people last year -- a decline of 37 per cent compared to 2015.

China was one of four countries, including Iran, Saudi Arabia, and Iraq, that were responsible for 87 per cent of all executions last year, the activist group said.


Amnesty's report found that hundreds of death sentences, including cases involving foreign nationals, had been omitted from China's public database of court verdicts, suggesting a concerted effort to hide the extent of the country's killings.

The ruling Communist Party considers the death toll a state secret.

"China is really the only country that has such a complete regime of secrecy over executions," Amnesty's East Asia director Nicholas Bequelin said at a press conference in Hong Kong...

I support the death penalty here in America, but this sounds more like Stalin's murderous purges. And, as usual, it's a leftist country that lacks transparency.

Some perspective.

Georgia with a population of 10 million, executed 9 people in 2016. That's 1 execution for every 1.1 million people. No one knows how many were killed in China. If 1,000 people were killed then this would be a lower rate than Georgia. If Georgia had a population the size of China's, it would have executed nearly 1,200 people in 2016.

Also, there are a lot of murderers in this country that should be executed but are not.

I've read some states have the death penalty but they don't use it.
For instance California is one of them...they didn't execute anybody since 2006.
And in Texas death row there is a man sentenced to death in 1976 and still waiting for execution

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[frigidweirdo]

I'm sure all of the socialist countries will say it was "fair justice" and they had due process. I wonder how many were executed on trumped up charges or because they had a political opinion and were courageous enough to share it?

They have a tendency of executing people for white collar crimes. In the US executions are never for the political classes or the rich, they look after their own.

I remember one case in China where a woman basically scammed people out of millions of dollars, so they executed her.

it's mostly because we only execute people for murder, and usually only really really bad ones, premeditated, when done in the commission of another crime, multiple (either spree or serial) or for killing cops.

It has less to do with economic or political might and more to do with poor people just tend to murder more than rich ones. Correlation if not causation.

Well, the point being that in China they will execute when people commit bad crimes to do with money. The US doesn't. Why not? Why do the politicians choose crimes that they generally don't do? Er... well... because... they're looking after their own.

 

[frigidweirdo]

I'm sure all of the socialist countries will say it was "fair justice" and they had due process. I wonder how many were executed on trumped up charges or because they had a political opinion and were courageous enough to share it?

They have a tendency of executing people for white collar crimes. In the US executions are never for the political classes or the rich, they look after their own.

I remember one case in China where a woman basically scammed people out of millions of dollars, so they executed her.

They also executed the ones that tainted the baby formula didn't they?

Probably. I know of the case, but I don't know what happened to the people, but it wouldn't surprise me. However we do know that if some white collar person did such a crime, he wouldn't get executed for it in the US.

 

[frigidweirdo]

I'm sure all of the socialist countries will say it was "fair justice" and they had due process. I wonder how many were executed on trumped up charges or because they had a political opinion and were courageous enough to share it?

They have a tendency of executing people for white collar crimes. In the US executions are never for the political classes or the rich, they look after their own.

I remember one case in China where a woman basically scammed people out of millions of dollars, so they executed her.

it's mostly because we only execute people for murder, and usually only really really bad ones, premeditated, when done in the commission of another crime, multiple (either spree or serial) or for killing cops.

It has less to do with economic or political might and more to do with poor people just tend to murder more than rich ones. Correlation if not causation.

A majority of people who are executed in China are those who voice political opinions against CCP. If the executed person was healthy, his/her organs are harvested for the benefit of Chinese oligarchs.

Do you have any evidence of this? The problem is that they do arrest such people, but records of who is getting executed isn't there.

Yes, they use organs, they "harvest" them so other people can get them. What's wrong with that? People are being executed, why not use their organs for other people?

 

[esthermoon]

I read Chinese government neither confirm nor deny the fact they use executed prisoners' organs

 

[martybegan]

I'm sure all of the socialist countries will say it was "fair justice" and they had due process. I wonder how many were executed on trumped up charges or because they had a political opinion and were courageous enough to share it?

They have a tendency of executing people for white collar crimes. In the US executions are never for the political classes or the rich, they look after their own.

I remember one case in China where a woman basically scammed people out of millions of dollars, so they executed her.

it's mostly because we only execute people for murder, and usually only really really bad ones, premeditated, when done in the commission of another crime, multiple (either spree or serial) or for killing cops.

It has less to do with economic or political might and more to do with poor people just tend to murder more than rich ones. Correlation if not causation.

Well, the point being that in China they will execute when people commit bad crimes to do with money. The US doesn't. Why not? Why do the politicians choose crimes that they generally don't do? Er... well... because... they're looking after their own.

Or maybe the ultimate punishment should be reserved for the ultimate crime. We used to execute people for non-murders, cattle rustling, insurrection, etc, but besides military justice, our system reserves capital punishment only for the crime of murder.

 

[frigidweirdo]

I'm sure all of the socialist countries will say it was "fair justice" and they had due process. I wonder how many were executed on trumped up charges or because they had a political opinion and were courageous enough to share it?

They have a tendency of executing people for white collar crimes. In the US executions are never for the political classes or the rich, they look after their own.

I remember one case in China where a woman basically scammed people out of millions of dollars, so they executed her.

it's mostly because we only execute people for murder, and usually only really really bad ones, premeditated, when done in the commission of another crime, multiple (either spree or serial) or for killing cops.

It has less to do with economic or political might and more to do with poor people just tend to murder more than rich ones. Correlation if not causation.

Well, the point being that in China they will execute when people commit bad crimes to do with money. The US doesn't. Why not? Why do the politicians choose crimes that they generally don't do? Er... well... because... they're looking after their own.

Or maybe the ultimate punishment should be reserved for the ultimate crime. We used to execute people for non-murders, cattle rustling, insurrection, etc, but besides military justice, our system reserves capital punishment only for the crime of murder.

Well, the ultimate crime is what? Just murder? Why is murder worse than stealing millions of pounds from people?

The point is that a country like America has capital punishment, but then criticizes China for using capital punishment. It's absurd.

 

[frigidweirdo]

I read Chinese government neither confirm nor deny the fact they use executed prisoners' organs

Well they do, and they've said they will stop using this practice, either last November or next November, I forget which, probably last November. But that doesn't mean they have stopped doing it.

 

[Correll]

I'm sure all of the socialist countries will say it was "fair justice" and they had due process. I wonder how many were executed on trumped up charges or because they had a political opinion and were courageous enough to share it?

They have a tendency of executing people for white collar crimes. In the US executions are never for the political classes or the rich, they look after their own.

I remember one case in China where a woman basically scammed people out of millions of dollars, so they executed her.

it's mostly because we only execute people for murder, and usually only really really bad ones, premeditated, when done in the commission of another crime, multiple (either spree or serial) or for killing cops.

It has less to do with economic or political might and more to do with poor people just tend to murder more than rich ones. Correlation if not causation.

Well, the point being that in China they will execute when people commit bad crimes to do with money. The US doesn't. Why not? Why do the politicians choose crimes that they generally don't do? Er... well... because... they're looking after their own.

Or maybe the ultimate punishment should be reserved for the ultimate crime. We used to execute people for non-murders, cattle rustling, insurrection, etc, but besides military justice, our system reserves capital punishment only for the crime of murder.

Well, the ultimate crime is what? Just murder? Why is murder worse than stealing millions of pounds from people?

The point is that a country like America has capital punishment, but then criticizes China for using capital punishment. It's absurd.

Amnesty International does not speak for the US, and certainly not for me.