Article: Conditions not ripe for China to abolish death penalty: supreme court spokesman

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 ...

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