Top judge backs death penalty

2008-4-12 21:09

Beijing - China's chief justice has told judges to impose the death penalty and other harsh sentences for violent crimes, the official Xinhua News Agency reported on Saturday.

Crimes involving terrorism or organised groups, violence, and those that "seriously threaten social order" should be dealt with especially harshly, Wang said.

Research by one monitoring group indicated that about 6 000 people were executed in 2007 - about a 25% drop from the year before.

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Thanks for this article.
China has been trying to keep a bit of a low profile because of the Olympics, but all this is still going on!