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Amnesty Criticizes China for Death Penalty Secrecy

Amnesty International today released its global report “Death Sentences and Executions: 2016.” While the report found a global 37% decrease in executions last year compared to 2015, it notes that “these numbers do not include the thousands of executions carried out in China, where data on the use of the death penalty remained classified as a state secret.” The international human rights organization also released a separate report, entitled