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
- AUGUST 18, 2009ChinaDEATH PENALTY
CHINA: FOUR MEN EXECUTED FOR DEADLY ROBBERY OF POLICE FINES CASH
four men were executed for murder, a court in east China's Anhui Province said.
- AUGUST 17, 2009ChinaDEATH PENALTY
CHINA : MAN'S DEATH SENTENCE FOR FRAUD UPHELD
a court in eastern China upheld the death sentence handed to an entrepreneur convicted of embezzling 970 million yuan (S$206 million) in a deer-breeding scam, state media said.
- AUGUST 17, 2009ChinaDEATH PENALTY
CHINA: DEATH, JAIL TERMS FOR PONZI 'CAB' SWINDLERS
a gang leader who swindled people in a Ponzi scheme linked to nonexistent taxicab investments was sentenced to death with a two-year reprieve by Shanghai No. 1 Intermediate People's Court in China.
- AUGUST 15, 2009ChinaDEATH PENALTY
CHINA: MAN EXECUTED FOR RAPING 24 MIDDLE SCHOOL GIRLS
Wu Tianxi, 63, the former vice chairman of the Zhenping county committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, was executed in Nanyang, in China’s Henan province.
- AUGUST 14, 2009ChinaDEATH PENALTY
CENTRAL CHINA COURT UPHOLDS DEATH PENALTY FOR CORRUPT OFFICIALS
the Higher People's Court of Hunan Province in China rejected the appeals of two men against their death sentences, local officials said. Li Dalun, 59, former secretary of Communist Party of China (CPC) Chenzhou Municipal Committee, was sentenced to death
- AUGUST 11, 2009ChinaDEATH PENALTY
CHINA TO IMPROVE EVIDENCE IN DEATH PENALTY CASES: STATE MEDIA
China is to introduce tighter rules governing prosecution evidence in death penalty cases, state media said.
AUGUST 7, 2009ChinaDEATH PENALTYCHINA: FORMER BEIJING AIRPORT BOSS EXECUTED
the former head of Beijing airport's management company was executed in China for
- AUGUST 5, 2009ChinaDEATH PENALTY
CHINA: TWO EXECUTED FOR DEFRAUDING PUBLIC OF HUGE AMOUNTS
two people were executed for fraud after China's Supreme People's Court (SPC) approved their sentences. The Intermediate People's Court of Hangzhou in southeast Zhejiang Province sentenced Si Chaxian to death.
- JULY 31, 2009ChinaDEATH PENALTY
CHINA'S TOP COURT APPROVES COUNTERFEITERS' DEATH PENALTIES
China's Supreme People's Court (SPC) approved the death penalties for two men forging a "huge amount" of fake money in 2004 to 2005.
- JULY 29, 2009ChinaDEATH PENALTY
CHINA MOVES TO REDUCE NUMBER OF EXECUTIONS
China is to reduce the number of people it executes to "an extremely small number", a top court official says.
- JULY 29, 2009ChinaDEATH PENALTY
DEATH PENALTY WILL BE USED MORE SPARINGLY: CHINA COURT
China's highest court urged that the death penalty be used less and for only the most serious criminal cases
JULY 28, 2009ChinaDEATH PENALTYJAPAN: THREE EXECUTED FOR MULTIPLE MURDERS
Japan hanged three inmates convicted of multiple murders including a Chinese national