>That's not what I hear. Amnesty Int'l says in 1999 China
>executed over a thousand, the U.S. 98, though in the case
>of the PRC, as Kathleen Turner says in Prizzi's Honor,
>it's not so much as a proportion of the population.
>
>http://www.amnesty.org/ailib/aipub/2000/ACT/A5000800.htm
For those who didn't follow this link, there's this morsel at the foot of the release:
>In 1999, 85 per cent of all known executions took place in China,
>Iran, Saudi Arabia, the Democratic Republic of the Congo and the
>USA. In China, the limited records available to Amnesty
>International at the end of the year indicated that at least 1,077
>people were executed, but the true figure was believed to be much
>higher. At least 165 executions were carried out in Iran. As many as
>100 people were executed in the Democratic Republic of the Congo
>after being sentenced to death by a military court. In Saudi Arabia,
>103 executions were reported, but the total may have been much
>higher. Ninety-eight people were executed in the USA. In addition,
>hundreds of executions were reported in Iraq, but many of them may
>have been extrajudicial.
Ask Amadou Diallo about extrajudicial executions....
Doug