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So common was the practice of compensation that the word• Shot at Dawn Pardons Campaign | Assuming that the guilty party's identity and responsibility have been fully determined, the traditional teaching of the Church does not exclude recourse to the death penalty, if this is the only possible way of effectively defending human lives against the unjust aggressor |
Dui Hua estimates that around 5,000 people were executed in China in 2007• The Abolition of the Death Penalty in International Law.
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