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The British Foreign Office’s annual human rights report for 2004, the most comprehensive in the EU, condemns China’s extensive use of the death penalty (even for such crimes as corruption, pimping, drug offenses, and tax fraud), its systematic torture of dissidents, and its restrictions on freedom of speech – including the Internet – and religion.

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And a couple of weeks later when Zacarias Moussaoui was indicted on six counts of conspiracy to commit terrorism, and the U.S. government called for a death penalty for him, if convicted, my husband and I spoke out in opposition to that, publicly.

And the more unequal societies are more likely also to retain the death penalty.

It's interesting, this question of the death penalty.

Death penalty in America is defined by error.

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