WASHINGTON — The United States ranks third, behind only China and Iran, in reported executions, according to a new report by a human-rights group that opposes the death penalty. Amnesty International’s annual report on the death penalty, released April 6, noted four countries accounted for 84 percent of the 1,146 government-reported executions worldwide in 2003 — the United States (65),…
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