China published its own report on the human rights...

China published its own report on the human rights situation in the United States in response to the US State Department's human rights reports which saw the US note the human rights abuses in all countries globally, except itself. China's report stated that in many cases torture was used to extract confessions, and that unjust charges were often reported in the country. It also stated that according to a Reuters report on February 11, 2002, US authorities confirmed that over 200 inmates had been wrongly convicted since 1973; among them 99 inmates on death row had been proved innocent, but that most of these had not received any compensation. The United States is one of the few countries to impose capital punishment on child offenders and mentally ill people in the world, two thirds of the executions of child offenders over the past decade worldwide were carried out in the United States, the report added.