Lethal injection to be used more
The use of lethal injection will be expanded to replace gunshot executions, a senior judicial official has said.
Jiang Xingchang, vice-president of the Supreme People's Court (SPC), said half of the country's 404 intermediate people's courts - which carry most of the executions - use lethal injections.
"It is considered more humane and will eventually be used in all intermediate people's courts," Jiang told China Daily without revealing a timetable.
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