Lethal Injection

Vietnam to manufacture drug for executing prisoners

24 Jan 2013

Vietnam will begin producing its own chemical for executing prisoners after factories in the European Union stopped shipments because of objections there to the death penalty.

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Mainland executions up 260pc, report says

29 May 2009

At least 1,700 people were executed on the mainland last year, up 260 per cent from the year before, and more than 7,000 death sentences were handed down by the mainland courts, Amnesty...

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Final sanction

5 Jan 2008

Most condemned mainland prisoners will now be killed by lethal injection. Given the debate on such injections in the US, is it time for both countries to heed the UN's call for a death penalty...

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Injection to become execution method

1 Sep 2000

Beijing is preparing to adopt execution by injection, a top judicial official said.

Shen Deyong, vice-president of the Supreme People's Court, told Xinhua yesterday that the mainland...

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Execution by lethal injection adopted as official alternative

5 Nov 1997

Execution by lethal injection is to be officially introduced as an alternative to firing squads.

Four death-row convicts were executed by lethal injection in Kunming yesterday,...

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Execution of rapist to be held in public

28 Jun 1996

A public execution by lethal injection will be carried out to implement the death sentence imposed by the Philippine Supreme Court on a house painter who raped his 10-year-old stepdaughter in 1994...

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