In China capital punishment is applied flexibly to a wide range of crimes, some of which are punishable by death in no other judicial system in the world. Economic crimes such as tax fraud have appeared routinely among the dockets of those receiving the death sentence, as have relatively small-scale drug offenses. Corruption, theft, and smuggling gold, silver or other precious metals, and the killing of pandas are also amongst the 68 crimes that are eligible for the death penalty in China.
Total # of executions in the US since 1976 (including 2010) is 1199. The officially confirmed numbers of executions in China were 5,000 people in 2007 and 6,000 people in 2008, down from 10,000 in 2005. The exact numbers of people executed in China is classified as a state secret and is certainly much larger than these figures. The rate of executions in China is much higher than the United States. Any questions?
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