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Article: 'China to use lethal injections more for executions'.
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- PTI - The Press Trust of India Ltd.
- Article date:
- January 3, 2008
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'China to use lethal injections more for executions'
Beijing, Jan 3 (PTI) China would expand the use of lethal injection to replace gunshots to carry out the death sentences, a senior judicial has said.
"It (lethal injection) is considered more humane and will eventually be used in all intermediate courts," the official was quoted as saying by the state-run China Daily.
Half of China's 404 Intermediate People's Courts which carry most of the executions use lethal injections, Jiang Xingchang, Vice-President of the Supreme People's Court (SPC), said.
He said toxin used in the injection would be allotted to local courts under strict ...