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Amnesty International estimates that executions across the world fell by more than a third last year, despite a record number of people being sentenced to death. So, deaths are down, but capital punishment has not gone away. Amnesty's estimates do not include official statistics from China. Dan Damon spoke with Kate Allen, Director of Amnesty International UK, and started by asking her what type of crime would get you executed in China.

(Picture: Death chamber from the witness room at the Southern Ohio Correctional Facility, August 29, 2001 Credit Mike Simons/Getty Images)