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
JUNE 23, 2018ChinaDEATH PENALTYCHINA: 10 EXECUTED FOR SERIES OF DRUG CRIMES
Ten drug traffickers were executed in Guangdong province after an appeals court upheld their earlier conviction and pronounced sentence.
MAY 2, 2018ChinaDEATH PENALTYCHINA: TWO MYANMAR DRUG DEALERS SENTENCED TO DEATH
A court in southwest China's Yunnan Province sentenced two people from Myanmar to death for drug trafficking and killing a Chinese policeman.
APRIL 25, 2018ChinaDEATH PENALTYCHINA: JURORS TO ATTEND DEATH PENALTY CASES
Chinese jurors are expected to participate in hearing cases in which defendants may face a death penalty, a draft law said.
APRIL 12, 2018ChinaDEATH PENALTYCHINA REMAINS WORLD'S TOP EXECUTIONER: AMNESTY
China has remained the worlds top executioner amid a decline in global executions, Amnesty International's annual report on capital punishment said.
- MARCH 30, 2018ChinaDEATH PENALTY
CHINA'S 'JACK THE RIPPER' SENTENCED TO DEATH
A Chinese court sentenced a 54-year-old man dubbed the country's "Jack the Ripper" to death for the rape and murder of 11 women and girls over the course of 14 years, state television reported.
MARCH 28, 2018ChinaDEATH PENALTYCHINA: FORMER VICE MAYOR SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR CORRUPTION
Zhang Zhongsheng, the former vice mayor of Luliang City in north China’s Shanxi Province, was sentenced to death for taking bribes of more than 1 billion yuan (US$159 million).
- JANUARY 12, 2018ChinaDEATH PENALTY
CHINA: MURDERER SENTENCED TO DEATH AFTER 8 YEARS AT LARGE
A court in east China's Jiangxi Province sentenced a man to death for killing a 17-year-old girl and raping her body eight years ago.
- JANUARY 1, 2018ChinaDEATH PENALTY
In February 2011, China dropped the death penalty for 13 non-violent crimes
In February 2011, China dropped the death penalty for 13 non-violent crimes
DECEMBER 18, 2017ChinaDEATH PENALTYCHINA: THOUSANDS WATCH AS 10 PEOPLE SENTENCED TO DEATH IN SPORT STADIUM
A court in China has sentenced 10 people to death, mostly for drug-related crimes, in front of thousands of onlookers before taking them away for execution.
JUNE 24, 2017ChinaDEATH PENALTYCHINA: THIRTEEN CHINESE DRUG DEALERS SENTENCED TO DEATH IN FRONT OF 10,000 AT PUBLIC STADIUM BEFORE EIGHT ARE WHISKED OFF IN A TRUCK TO BE EXECUTED IMMEDIATELY
Eight were executed straight after the hearing — slammed by human rights activists as barbaric — in the southern city of Shanwei, Guangdong.
- JUNE 24, 2017ChinaDEATH PENALTY
CHINESE COURTS SENTENCES 13 DRUG DEALERS TO DEATH IN FRONT OF THOUSANDS
In a joint court case by the Shanwei Intermediate People's Court and the Lufeng People's Court in China, 13 men and women on trial for drug charges were sentenced to death in front of crowds as big as 10,000.
JUNE 22, 2017ChinaDEATH PENALTYCHINA: 12 NANJING DRUG DEALERS SENTENCED TO DEATH
Eighteen men were on trial in Nanjing for various offences, ranging from trafficking and possession to drug abuse and re-offending.