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China, Iran and U.S. World’s Top Executioners

HeadlineApr 08, 2004

Amnesty International has issued a report that found the U.S. and three other countries were responsible for 84 percent of the executions around the world last year. The other three countries are China, Iran and Vietnam. China executed 726 people. Iran executed 108 and the U.S. was third with 65 executions.

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