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
MAY 15, 2015ChinaDEATH PENALTYCHINA: MAN SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR MURDER AFTER 17 YEARS
A former Chinese police officer was sentenced to death for homicide, 17 years after the murdered woman's
APRIL 25, 2015ChinaDEATH PENALTYCHINA: DRUG SMUGGLER EXECUTED FOR SMUGGLING
A drug trafficker was executed in south China’s Guangdong Province following approval by the Supreme People’s Court.
APRIL 2, 2015ChinaDEATH PENALTYCHINA: AUSTRALIAN MAN SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR DRUG SMUGGLING
A Queensland man has been sentenced to death in China after being caught trying to smuggle methamphetamine to Australia.
MARCH 24, 2015ChinaDEATH PENALTYCHINA: THREE PEOPLE EXECUTED FOR KUNMING RAILWAY STATION ATTACK
three people were executed for a mass stabbing that killed 31 people at a train station in Kunming in March 2014, China’s Supreme People’s Court announced in a microblog post, with authorities blaming the attack on separatists from mainly Muslim Xinjiang.
MARCH 19, 2015ChinaDEATH PENALTYCHINA: DEATH SENTENCE FOR ARSONIST OVER LAND DISPUTE
A man has been sentenced to death in east China's Shandong province for setting a fatal fire in a dispute over land rights in March 2014.
MARCH 5, 2015ChinaDEATH PENALTYCHINA: MAN RECEIVES DEATH SENTENCE FOR MOLESTING BABY
A man has been sentenced to death with a reprieve in China for the sexual abuse of a two-and-a half-year-
FEBRUARY 17, 2015ChinaDEATH PENALTYCHINA: MAN GETS $189,000 FOR SIX YEARS ON DEATH ROW
A Chinese man who was freed after six years on death row following a wrongful murder conviction was
- FEBRUARY 15, 2015ChinaDEATH PENALTY
CHINA TO REQUIRE POLICE TO FILM ALL INTERROGATIONS
China will require police to film and record all interrogations in criminal cases to ensure that law enforcement
FEBRUARY 9, 2015ChinaDEATH PENALTYCHINA: MINING TYCOON LIU HAN EXECUTED
A Chinese mining billionaire said to have links with disgraced former security tsar Zhou Yongkang and who
- FEBRUARY 1, 2015ChinaDEATH PENALTY
CHINA: 2 FROM BANNED SECT EXECUTED FOR MURDER AT MCDONALD'S
A father and daughter have been executed in China for attacking and killing a woman who had refused to
- JANUARY 10, 2015ChinaDEATH PENALTY
CHINA: SCHOOL DEPUTY PRINCIPAL EXECUTED FOR KIDNAPPING, KILLING GIRL
Yang Haijun, former deputy principal of a primary school in north China's Hebei Province, was executed for
- JANUARY 1, 2015ChinaDEATH 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