Comment Re:China is worlds largest executioner (Score 1) 286
In article , Anonymous Coward wrote:
> [From FHM magazine...] Apprently in 97, they executed a 1,876.
All right:
In 1997 Texas carried out 37 executions among 19.4 million people.
One out of 524,000 people in Texas were executed in 1997.
China's population is about 1.25 billion. One out of 666,000 people
in China were executed in 1997.
Sources:
http://www.tdcj.state.tx.us/statistics/deathrow/ drow-facts.htm
http://www.census.gov/population/estimates/state /st-98-3.txt
http://www.cia.gov/cia/publications/factbook/ch. html
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> [From FHM magazine...] Apprently in 97, they executed a 1,876.
All right:
In 1997 Texas carried out 37 executions among 19.4 million people.
One out of 524,000 people in Texas were executed in 1997.
China's population is about 1.25 billion. One out of 666,000 people
in China were executed in 1997.
Sources:
http://www.tdcj.state.tx.us/statistics/deathrow
http://www.census.gov/population/estimates/stat
http://www.cia.gov/cia/publications/factbook/ch
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