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Capital punishment in China can be imposed on crimes against national symbols and treasures, such as theft of cultural relics and (before 1997) the killing of giant pandas. [43] Executions under the pretense of political crimes are extremely rare and confined to persons involved in violence or the threat of violence.
The Five Punishments (Chinese: 五刑; pinyin: wǔ xíng; Cantonese Yale: ńgh yìhng) was the collective name for a series of physical penalties meted out by the legal system of pre-modern dynastic China. [1] Over time, the nature of the Five Punishments varied. Before the Western Han dynasty Emperor Han Wendi (r.
The nine familial exterminations, nine kinship exterminations, or execution of nine relations, also known by the names zuzhu ("family execution") and miezu ("family extermination"), was the most severe punishment for a capital offense in premodern China, Korea, and Vietnam.
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In China, lethal injections were legalized in 1997. [3] Lethal injections are now the most prominent form of capital punishment in China and, in some provinces, are the only legal form of capital punishment. [4] Yunnan officials authorized the use of execution vans in March 2003 and the province deployed 18 vans in the same year. Zhao Shijie ...
"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.
During the Maoist era in the People's Republic of China, particularly during the Anti-Rightist Movement and the Cultural Revolution, the judicial system was often used for political persecution of rivals, and penalties such as jail terms or capital punishment were largely imposed on the authority's political enemies, or anyone who attempted to challenge it.
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 ...