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Lethal injection to be used more

By Xie Chuanjiao | China Daily | Updated: 2008-01-03 07:16

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.

Lethal injection to be used more

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