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China's death row is shrouded in secrecy. It keeps its figures on executions secret, but Amnesty International estimates that it killed thousands of prisoners from 2016 to 2020. The US government, conversely, killed 13 prisoners during that time period following a 17-year hiatus that former President Donald Trump ended.

Inaccurate, of course; the US executed something more like 100 prisoners during that time period, since most executions are not carried out by the federal government.




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