China
2026
- GOVERNMENT
- communist state
- CONSTITUTION
- December 4, 1982, amended several times, last in 2004.
- LEGAL SYSTEM
- based on civil law, of Soviet derivation and derived from the legal principles of the continental civil code
- LEGISLATIVE SYSTEM
- unicameral, National People's Congress (Quanguo Renmin Daibiao Dahui)
- JUDICIAL SYSTEM
- Supreme People's Court, judges appointed by the National People's Congress; local people's courts and special people's courts
RELIGIONS
Buddhists 18.2%, Christians 5.1%, Muslims 1.8%, others 0.7%, unspecified 52.2%
From the country
JULY 17, 2019ChinaDEATH PENALTYCHINA: MAN WHO KILLED 3 IN REVENGE ATTACK EXECUTED
Zhang Koukou, who killed three neighbors in revenge for his mother's death, was executed on 17 July 2019 after his death penalty was approved by China's top court.
- JULY 12, 2019ChinaDEATH PENALTY
TAIWAN: SUPREME COURT CONFIRMS DEATH SENTENCE FOR ARSONIST WHO KILLED 6
The Supreme Court on 10 July 2019 confirmed the death penalty against a man who committed arson on Lunar New Year’s Eve, killing six people including both his parents, and injuring four.
JULY 11, 2019ChinaDEATH PENALTYCHINA: MAN SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR KILLING 6 AFTER DRIVING INTO CROWD
A court in northeast China's Liaoning Province on 9 July 2019 sentenced a man to death for killing six children and injuring 20 people after driving into a group of children crossing a road.
JULY 4, 2019ChinaDEATH PENALTYCHINA: FATHER SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR KILLING HIS BABY'S DOCTOR IN HOSPITAL IN A REVENGE ATTACK AFTER THE GIRL DIED OF AN ILLNESS
A Chinese was sentenced to death on 4 July 2019 for killing a doctor in the hospital in a revenge attack after his three-day-old daughter died of an illness.
JUNE 19, 2019ChinaDEATH PENALTYCHINA: 5 SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR TRANSPORTING, MANUFACTURING DRUGS
A court in central China's Hunan Province on June 18 2019 sentenced five people to death for transporting and manufacturing drugs.
JUNE 17, 2019ChinaDEATH PENALTYCHINA: BEIJING KNIFE-ATTACKER SENTENCED TO DEATH
A man who killed one person and wounded 14 more with a knife at a Beijing mall in 2018 has been sentenced to death for “intentional murder,” a local intermediate court ruled on 13 June 2019.
JUNE 6, 2019ChinaDEATH PENALTYCHINA: DEATH FOR BUSINESSMAN WHO RAPED 25 YOUNG GIRLS
A businessman was executed in the central Chinese province of Henan on 4 June 2019 for the rape of 25 minors – including 14 under the age of 14 – over a two-year period.
JUNE 3, 2019ChinaDEATH PENALTYCHINA: TWO CHILD TRAFFICKERS SENTENCED TO DEATH
Two child traffickers have been sentenced to death and 10 others given prison terms and fined in North China's Shanxi Province, the Xinhua News Agency reported on 1st June 2019.
- MAY 29, 2019ChinaDEATH PENALTY
CHINA: TWO DRUG TRAFFICKER SENTENCED TO DEATH SIX YEARS AFTER THE TRIAL
The Intermediate People’s Court in Jiangmen, Guangdong province, on 30 April 2019 handed down death sentences for drug offences to two accused and suspended death sentences for five others.
- MAY 7, 2019ChinaDEATH PENALTY
CHINA: SIX EXECUTED FOR KILLING WORKERS IN MINING COMPENSATION SCAM
Six men were executed on 12 April 2019 in northern China for killing mine workers and then claiming millions of yuan in compensation from the pit owners.
- APRIL 30, 2019ChinaDEATH PENALTY
CHINA: CANADIAN SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR DRUG OFFENCES
A Chinese court sentenced a Canadian national to death on 30 April 2019 for producing and trafficking methamphetamine.
- APRIL 22, 2019ChinaDEATH PENALTY
CHINA: SCISSOR KILLER SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR DECADES-OLD DOUBLE MURDER
A man in eastern China has been sentenced to death for the decades-old murder of a woman and her young child during a violent robbery in which he only managed to steal the equivalent of a few US dollars, the Qianjiang Evening News reported on 22 April 201