Death penalty 'at record levels'

Nearly 4,000 people were executed worldwide in 2004 - the most in nearly a decade, Amnesty International says.
China carried out more executions than all other countries combined - at least 3,400 - the human rights group says.
The global rise in executions was "alarming", said Amnesty's UK director Kate Allen, who called the figures from China "genuinely frightening".
China says it will tighten conditions under which people can be executed, and the US has already done so.
The US came fourth in Amnesty's table of executions, with 59 in 2004.
Iran came second, with at least 159, followed by Vietnam with at least 64. [the US is followed by Saudi Arabia and Pakistan]