From China Daily: In a major step to safeguard human rights, the Supreme People’s Court is expected to assume all powers to review and approve death sentences from January 1. Shen DeyongÔºàÊ≤àÂæ∑Âãá), vice-president of the Supreme People’s Court, made the announcement on Friday at a session of the Standing Committee of the National People’s Congress […]
Read MoreFrom USA Today (link): China, which executed more than four times as many people as all other countries combined last year, is moving to curtail its use of the death penalty. Beijing’s new policy comes after years of criticism from human rights groups, as well as pressure from Chinese lawyers and other legal professionals. “We […]
Read MoreFrom People’s Daily Online (link) To promote meticulosity in meting out capital punishment, top judge Xiao Yang said Saturday that Chinese courts will start from this year to open court sessions when hearing death sentence trials in second instance, after taking steps to retrieve the power of death penalty review from provincial courts. “As of […]
Read MoreFrom Xinhua: The Supreme Court will no longer permit provincial courts to review death sentences so as to ensure that capital punishment is meted out meticulously and fairly, Chief Justice Xiao Yang, also president of the Supreme People’s Court, said Tuesday. “The death sentence is the most serious level of penalty for criminals. It is […]
Read MoreFrom the Taipei Times: Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao (Ê∫´ÂÆ∂ÂØ∂) said that China “cannot” abolish the death penalty due to the country’s “national conditions,” but outlined hoped for regulations on how the state imposes capital punishment. “China is reforming its judicial system, including taking the right to review the death penalty to the Supreme People’s Court,” […]
Read MoreXinhua reports that China may reform its procedures for prosecuting death penalty cases: China hinted at reform of the death penalty on Wednesday in a supreme court report to parliament that also touched issues ranging from corruption to social order in the face of rapid change… The top court relinquished the power of final review […]
Read MoreFrom ChinaView.cn: ” Powerful arguments over the possibility of abolishing the death penalty in China have been voiced following the academic conference “the International Symposium on the Death Pnalty” held last month at Xiangtan in Hunan province. Legal experts at the conference argued that China would need to limit the use of capital punishment when […]
Read MoreFrom People’s Daily Online: Chinese experts and officials in criminal justice said here at a human rights symposium that China should revise its approach to death penalty by rescinding the right of provincial courts to have the final say on executions. “When it comes to life or death, we have to be very cautious,” said […]
Read MoreFrancis Markus of BBC reports that China is revising the death penalty law. According to the official media, the change will make the Supreme Court the ultimate body of appeal in capital cases.
Read MoreThis is a shocking story, about a wrongful execution only discovered ten years later. (The Globe and Mail’s report is here.) After the story was uncovered and reported by the Henan Business News, Chinese authority quickly...
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