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Article: Conditions not ripe for China to abolish death penalty: supreme court spokesman
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- Xinhua News Agency
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- March 11, 2006
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Conditions not ripe for China to abolish death penalty: supreme
court spokesman
BEIJING, March 11 (Xinhua) -- China, for the moment, does not have
the right conditions for abolishing capital punishment, said
spokesman Sun Huapu of the Supreme People's Court at Saturday's on-
line meeting with visitors of two top Chinese websites.
In reply to netizens surfing the Xinhuanet.com and the GOV.cn,
which is the website of the Chinese central government, the spokesman
made it clear that China is among the more than half of the nations
in the world that have insisted on the death penalty, which has drawn
criticism from others. It is a global trend that the controversial
practice will be gradually ...