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
- JANUARY 2, 2012ChinaDEATH PENALTY
a female college student named Lanlan
a female college student named Lanlan
- JANUARY 1, 2012ChinaDEATH PENALTY
A revised Criminal Procedure Law came into force in January 1997
A revised Criminal Procedure Law came into force in January 1997
- DECEMBER 30, 2011ChinaDEATH PENALTY
an undergraduate has been sentenced to death for killing
an undergraduate has been sentenced to death for killing
- DECEMBER 30, 2011ChinaDEATH PENALTY
the Chongqing No.1 Intermediate Court, in China
the Chongqing No.1 Intermediate Court, in China
- DECEMBER 30, 2011ChinaDEATH PENALTY
Bai Zhiming, former deputy secretary-general of the CPC's Inner Mongolia
Bai Zhiming, former deputy secretary-general of the CPC's Inner Mongolia
- DECEMBER 29, 2011ChinaDEATH PENALTY
a court in the southern city of Shenzhen, in China
a court in the southern city of Shenzhen, in China
DECEMBER 29, 2011ChinaDEATH PENALTYCHINA: 12 PEOPLE EXECUTED IN SINGLE DAY
China has executed 12 people in a single day, including a man who bombed a local tax office
DECEMBER 27, 2011ChinaDEATH PENALTYCHINA: TWO INVOLVED IN DRUG-RELATED CRIMES SENTENCED TO DEATH
Two local courts in China have sentenced to death two men on charges of trafficking and manufacturing
- DECEMBER 23, 2011ChinaDEATH PENALTY
SW CHINA COURT UPHOLDS DEATH SENTENCE FOR CORRUPTION
in southwest China, the Higher People's Court of Chongqing upheld the death sentence of Wang Guanchao, former board chairman of Beijing Triple Nine Automobile Industrial Co, for graft and embezzlement totalling over 30 million yuan.
- DECEMBER 22, 2011ChinaDEATH PENALTY
7 SENTENCED TO DEATH IN NORTH CHINA
the Taiyuan Intermediate People's Court in China's north Shanxi province sentenced five people to death and two others to death with a two-year reprieve for drug trafficking in October 2010.
- DECEMBER 16, 2011ChinaDEATH PENALTY
CHINA: DEATH SENTENCE FOR PICKAXE MURDER
the Shenyang Intermediate People's Court in northeast China's Liaoning Province sentenced Xiao Guang, a 31-year-old resident of Liaozhong County, to death.
- DECEMBER 13, 2011RussiaDEATH PENALTY
CHINA: RUSSIAN WOMAN SENTENCED TO DEATH
Russian national Marina Lopatina said she will not appeal her death sentence with a two year reprieve.