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China rethinks the death penalty

Last month, China’s Supreme People’s Court overturned the death sentence of a woman who brutally killed and dismembered her husband.

The landmark decision to send the high-profile case back to a provincial court was yet another sign that the country’s embrace of the death penalty is loosening.

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