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Capital punishment is a legal penalty in China. It is applicable to offenses ranging from murder to drug trafficking. [1] . Executions are carried out by lethal injection or by shooting. [2][3][4] A survey conducted by The New York Times in 2014 found the death penalty retained widespread support in Chinese society. [5]
China's horrifying use of the death penalty remains one of the country’s deadly secrets, as the authorities continue to execute thousands of people each year, Amnesty International said in its 2016 global review of the death penalty published today.
A death sentence in China is either approved with ‘immediate execution’ or with a ‘two- year suspension’. 3 Increased use of the suspended death sentence has reduced executions but it is also associated with higher risks of miscarriages of justice.
Beginning in 2009, Amnesty International ceased to publish minimum figures for the use of the death penalty in China, where such statistics are considered to be state secrets. 89% of all recorded executions in 2015 took place in 3 countries: Iran, Pakistan, and Saudi Arabia.
In China, thousands of people are given the death penalty each year. But confessions are often extracted under torture and fair trials are rare.
China remained the world’s leading executioner – but the true extent of its use of the death penalty is unknown as this data is classified as a state secret; the global figures for executions and death sentences therefore exclude the thousands of people that Amnesty International believes to have been sentenced to death and executed in China.
Many of the authors emphasize the strict political legacy of the death penalty in China. The chapters span from discussions on abolition in the late Qing and Republican periods to the mass killings of Maoist campaigns against “counterrevolutionaries” in the 1950s, when millions were executed.
28 Oct 2024 06:32PM. SINGAPORE: A woman has been sentenced to death in China for abducting and trafficking 17 children in three different provinces between 1993 and 2003. The retrial of Yu Huaying ...
In Mainland China, there are 46 [1] crimes punishable by death. [2] [3] These are defined in the criminal law of China, which comprehensively identifies criminal acts and their corresponding liabilities. [4]
China adopted the Ninth Amendment to the Criminal Law in 2015 with nine crimes no longer death-eligible e.g., from smuggling nuclear materials (Article 151) to fabricating rumors to mislead people during wartime (Article 433), yet with a total of 46 death eligible offenses now.