From BBC news:
China’s top court is to regain its power to review death sentences, as the authorities move to stem criticism that the death penalty is too widely used.
The Supreme Court passed its right to review to lower courts in the 1980s, and a series of subsequent miscarriages of justice have recently come to light.China carried out at least 3,400 executions last year, according to rights group Amnesty International.
That is more than was carried out by all other countries combined, AI says.
The Supreme People’s Court is setting up three branch courts in order to conduct the reviews, according to Chinese state media.
