Amnesty International released the 2012 “Death Sentences and Executions” report this week, showing that a global trend towards abolishing capital punishment is continuing. From Amnesty International’s press...
Read MoreA document released on Monday by China’s State Council Information Office titled The National Human Rights Action Plan of China (2012-2015) promises that review of all death penalty cases will be open to the public. From...
Read MoreThe deputy chief of China’s highest court has criticised inconsistent adherence to evidence standards in the country’s death penalty cases, whose annual number is a state secret. From the South China Morning Post:...
Read MoreThere have been many food scandals in China over the past few years. Recently, China’s Supreme People’s Court has come out with harsher penalties for food safety violators and their accomplices. From CNN: In a...
Read MoreA revision to China’s Criminal Law has eliminated the death penalty sentence for 13 crimes. From China Daily: China’s newly revised Criminal Law eliminated the death penalty for 13 economy-related crimes, as the...
Read MoreSouthern Weekend interviewed Zhou Guangquan, member of the Legal Committee of the National People’s Congress and Tsinghua University professor, about the recent proposal to reduce the number of non-violent crimes that are...
Read MoreOriental Outlook (瞭望东方周刊) looks at why some local courts are increasingly handing down death sentences with two-year reprieves (判死缓). Translated by CDT: “The Public Security Bureau shoulders an enormous pressure. There is...
Read MoreFrom Reuters: China rejected calls from Western and some Latin American countries on Wednesday to end the death penalty and to agree to enforce a wide range of human rights including allowing independent labor unions. But it...
Read MoreFrom AP: A Chinese court sentenced a junk dealer to death Monday for murdering eight people, among them a widow who jilted him and her 2-year-old grandson slain with an ax, state media reported. The Intermediate People’s...
Read MoreFrom AP: A young man who drew a surprising amount of sympathy in China after being convicted of killing six policemen in Shanghai will get the death penalty after losing his final appeal Monday. Dozens of angry Chinese massed...
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