Indonesia to execute six drug offenders

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I guess it depends on what you mean by minimally developed. I wouldn't really call China minimally developed. Singapore is another first world country that comes to mind.

No. China has economical growth, but not so much when it comes to development. Check out this distinction (It's actually the first search on google but it's accurate)

To be super succinct, growth depends on your GDP; development depends on your human development index - China is better on the former, but it isn't considered very developed compared to other western or even asian (I'm thinking Japan) standards.

I think China is ranked 90 or 91 in HDI, it's not much.

Well that puts China slightly above average in terms of the entire world. While maybe it's too much nitpicking of language I'd hardly call them 'minimally' developed. Same goes for Saudi Arabia, another execution friendly place. They are the wealthiest country in their immediate region except for Israel. People always want to say that the US compares poorly to developed or first world countries but in reality there are very few first world countries. There is the United States, Canada, The European Union, Japan, South Korea, Israel, Singapore..... Not much else really. It's just a matter of putting the cut off point where you want it to to make the US look out of place. In reality the US executed only 34 people in 2014 (http://www.deathpenaltyinfo.org/execution-list-2014), all for aggravated or multiple murders. Whether or not you find capital punishment to be an absolute moral wrong, that's way different than executing people for non-violent drug offenses.