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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.
"China's Death Penalty: Reforms on Capital Punishment (EAI Background Brief No. 412" (PDF). East Asian Institute, National University of Singapore. East Asian Institute, National University of Singapore.
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; [21] but the death penalty for all crimes do not apply to the two special administrative regions, Hong Kong and Macau.
On Tuesday, Amnesty International released both its 2016 worldwide report on the death penalty and the findings of an investigation into that matter. Amnesty International calls on China to ...
China has executed two Filipinos for drug trafficking despite high-level Philippine government appeals to commute their death sentences to life in prison, the Philippine government said Saturday.
Koxinga ordered the mass execution of Dutch male prisoners on Taiwan Chahar Mongol rebellion 1675 (Qing) Inner Mongolia: Several thousand Chahar Mongols Manchus massacred Chahar Mongol rebels led by Abunai and his son Borni. Abunei was Ejei Khan's brother. Manchus then massacred all male members of Abunai and Borni's particular branch of the ...
BEIJING (Reuters) -Australian writer and pro-democracy blogger Yang Hengjun was handed a suspended death sentence by a Beijing court on Monday, in what human rights advocates say is an unusually ...
People executed by China or Chinese authorities regardless of their nationality. For people of Chinese nationality who were executed by any country, ...