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After Chyna's death, Chyna's sister Kathy reported the wrestler was offered a new WWF contract in 2001 with a minimum salary of $400,000 per year and the potential for substantially higher income via merchandising and pay-per-view appearances, but she refused to sign a contract for less than a base salary of $1 million per year. [73]
Since 2006, under global pressures, China has embarked on significant reforms on the death penalty system. [59] In 2011, China abolished the death penalty for 13 crimes in Amendment VIII to the Criminal Law of PRC, [15] which was the most important amendment passed since 1997.
Endangering national security is among the crime categories included in the 1997 revision of China's criminal code. [5] It comprises Articles 102 to 113 of the 1997 Criminal Law and imposes the confiscation of property as a supplementary penalty. [ 6 ]
The suspended death sentence in Chinese law gives the accused a two-year reprieve from being executed, after which it is automatically converted to life imprisonment, or more rarely, fixed-term ...
BEIJING (Reuters) -China on Friday threatened to impose the death penalty in extreme cases for "diehard" Taiwan independence separatists, a ratcheting up of pressure even though Chinese courts ...
Wang Bin (Chinese: 王彬; [2] born April 14, 1994), [3] is a Chinese professional wrestler, using the ring name Tian Bing. He is best known for his time in WWE , and for being the first wrestler from mainland China to compete in the company.
China is the world's most active user of the death penalty; according to Amnesty International, China executes more people than the rest of the world combined, each year; [22] but the death penalty for all crimes do not apply to the two special administrative regions, Hong Kong and Macau.
A Chinese-Australian writer has received a suspended death penalty in China, five years after he was first detained, according to Australian Foreign Minister Penny Wong.