Although the record is held by China, whose numbers, estimated in thousands, are kept under State secrecy.. The death penalty is far from disappearing as a punishment measure in the world.

China on Friday threatened to impose the death penalty in extreme cases for “diehard” Taiwan independence separatists, a ratcheting up of pressure even though Chinese courts have no ...

TAIPEI--Democracy is not a crime and autocracy is the real “evil,” Taiwan President Lai Ching-te said on Monday after China threatened to impose the death penalty in extreme cases for ...