China to Switch to Lethal Injections
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China, which executes more people each year than any other country, will expand the use of lethal injections instead of gunshots for death sentences, a state-run newspaper reported Thursday.
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BEIJING, May 29 -- The disgraced head of China's drug administration was sentenced to death Tuesday for accepting what a court described as "huge bribes" to approve faulty medicines, including a batch of antibiotics that killed six patients and sickened 80.
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China will launch a long-term offensive against dangerous medicines and bad foods that have alarmed consumers, the government announced in a plan that vows stronger export controls.
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China is to introduce jury trials next year as part of reforms to its legal system, state media reports.
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China will expand the use of lethal  injections to replace execution by gunshot, state media said on  Thursday of a country which kills more convicts than anywhere  else.
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Chinese officials have called for Western countries to sign extradition treaties, the China Daily reported on Monday, saying the country's use of the death penalty was no reason to avoid repatriating criminals.
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China is expected to pass its first anti-drug law this week to combat drug-related crimes and reduce the number of abusers, state media said on Sunday.
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China executed Zheng Xiaoyu for taking bribes to approve untested medicine as Beijing scrambled to show that it is serious about improving the safety of Chinese products.
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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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China is expected to pass its first  anti-drug law this week to combat drug-related crimes and  reduce the number of abusers, state media said on Sunday.
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The government is planning to create tougher punishments for those who kill people while driving.
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China has executed fewer people since the country's highest court was given authority to review death sentences at the start of this year, state media reported on Friday.
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China is set to complete the transition from aid recipient to international donor in the next year, the head of the world&#39;s biggest humanitarian agency said yesterday as he announced plans to phase out food support for Beijing and introduce a new period
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China's food and drug agency announced stricter rules Wednesday for approving new drugs, a day after its former head was executed for accepting bribes to approve untested medicine. The government also ordered small, loosely regulated food producers to clean up their act.
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The execution was meant to show that Beijing is serious about improving the safety of Chinese products.
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Chinese surgeons will try to remove 23 needles from a woman that doctors believe may have been imbedded under her skin by grandparents trying to kill her so that a baby boy might take her place.
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BISHKEK, Kyrgyzstan, Jan 17 (IPS) - The abolition of the death penalty in Uzbekistan --  the 135th state to abandon state-sanctioned killing --  effectively means the entire central Asian region has now  consigned to history a punishment that was strongly associated  with the days of the Soviet empire.