From The Washington Post

Every year, Amnesty International publishes an exhaustive report looking at capital punishment around the world. Researchers from the activist group, which campaigns against the death penalty, sift through court records and news reports to document how many people were put to death in various countries.

This is no easy task. Many countries have opaque public records on executions, and the researchers are sometimes able to provide only minimum numbers or estimates. Other countries’ execution totals can’t be estimated at all because of a lack of data.

For years, China has been one of those countries. In its most recent report, Amnesty explained that the number of executions carried out in China is considered a state secret by its government. Amen also suggested that there were possibly “thousands of executions carried out in China” in 2017 — far more than in any other country.

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