China executes 12 people in one day

China has executed 12 people in a single day, including a man who bombed a local tax office.

The official Xinhua News Agency said Liu Zhuiheng was convicted and sentenced to death for detonating explosives outside a tax office in Changsha city in Hunan province in July 2010. Four people were killed and 17 others wounded.

China’s supreme court approved the death sentence of Liu and 11 others, convicted of crimes including robbery and murder, yesterday. About 4,000 people are executed in China every year – more than any other country in the world.