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China should reduce the number of death sentences it carries out, but the world's leading executioner of prisoners cannot afford to do away with capital punishment altogether, the country's top legal bodies said.

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March 12, 2007, 1:02 a.m.
China is believed to carry out more court-ordered executions than all other nations combined. Amnesty International says China executed at least 1,770 people in 2005 - about 80 percent of the world's total.
The true number is thought to be many times higher. London-based Amnesty has cited a senior member of China's national legislature as saying some 10,000 people are executed each year.

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