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Tue 08 Aug 2010China poised to abolish death penalty for economic crimes
CHINA, WHICH executes more people each year than the rest of the world put together, is planning changes to its criminal code that would end the use of capital punishment for economic crimes.
The exact number of those executed by firing squad or lethal injection remains a closely guarded state secret, but some human rights groups put the figure at around 6,000 a couple of years ago.
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