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		</div><p>China&#8217;s chief justice has said his country, which is believed to execute more people than the rest of the world combined, gave the death penalty to an &#8220;extremely small number of criminals for extremely serious offences&#8221; in the past 10 years. The actual number of executions in China is a state secret.</p>
<p>A 2007 decision that all death sentences must be reviewed by the Supreme People&#8217;s Court is believed to have reduced the number of executions dramatically.</p>
<p>Chief Justice Zhou Qiang said in his report to the national legislature that the court has &#8220;strictly controlled and prudently applied&#8221; the death penalty, without giving any figures.</p>
<p>Dui Hua, a US-based rights group that focuses on legal justice, estimated that about 2,400 people were executed in 2013, one-tenth the number in 1983.</p>
<p>It said that, according to its sources, the number of annual executions remained largely unchanged in 2014 and 2015.</p>
<p>China can punish 46 crimes with the death penalty. It is typically given in cases of murder, rape, robbery and drug offences.</p>
<p>Mr Zhou also said that over the coming year, courts will use the law to severely punish crimes of harming state security and violent terrorism &#8220;to resolutely safeguard the country&#8217;s political security&#8221;.</p>
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