Six times as many people are executed in China as the rest of the world COMBINED

The Dui Hua Foundation, a San Francisco-based human rights group, said that China executed 2,400 prisoners last year.

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LOS ANGELES, CA (Catholic Online) - The Chinese government is sensitive about their executions, though the number of executed prisoners has decreased 20% by 2012.

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The nonprofit Dui Hua Foundation, which seeks clemency and better treatment for prisoners in China, said it got these figures from "a judicial official with access to the number of executions carried out each year."

"China currently executes more people every year than the rest of the world combined, but it has executed far fewer people since the power of final review of death sentences was returned to the (Supreme People's Court) in 2007," a statement from the group said.

Even while the numbers are lowered from two years ago, but the foundation says that China will execute another 2,400 prisoners before the end of 2014.

China's top court, the Supreme People's Court, now examines all death sentences issued in the country. From July 2013 to September 2014, the court reviewed 150 death penalty decisions, with the majority for murder and drug cases.

China is routinely condemned by human rights groups for its high execution rate and a secretive death penalty process.

Amnesty international releases an annual report of death sentences from 22 countries. Its report from 2013 recorded an increase of 14% in worldwide executions from the 2012 figure.

Amnesty does not publish statistics from China's death penalty, and hasn't since 2009, due to the difficulty of obtaining information from the Chinese government.

The group's overall figure in 2013 showed that 778 people were executed that year. If the Chinese figures are correct, China executes more than three times as many people as the rest of the world combined.

Besides China, 80% of all executions in 2013 took place in Iran (369), Iraq (169) and Saudi Arabia.

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