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
- SEPTEMBER 6, 2009ChinaDEATH PENALTY
CHINA: NEEDLE ATTACKERS FACE DEATH PENALTY
a notice from a western Chinese municipal court warned that anybody convicted of attacks with hypodermic needles containing harmful substances or contaminated by drugs would face penalties from three years in prison to the death sentence
- SEPTEMBER 4, 2009ChinaDEATH PENALTY
PHILIPPINES: 4 FILIPINO DRUG MULES FACE DEATH SENTENCES IN CHINA
a Philippine diplomat said four nationals were on death row in China for drug offences.
- SEPTEMBER 4, 2009ChinaDEATH PENALTY
CHINA: MAN APPEALS DEATH SENTENCE
Sun Weiming, 30, appealed to the Sichuan Provincial Higher People's Court in China after being sentenced to death in July by the Intermediate People's Court of Chengdu City, the province's capital.
AUGUST 26, 2009ChinaDEATH PENALTYCHINA: EXECUTED PRISONERS ARE MAIN SOURCE OF ORGAN DONATIONS
two-thirds of organ donors in China are executed prisoners, state media reported, as health officials
AUGUST 24, 2009ChinaDEATH PENALTYCHINA: MORE NE CITIES TO ADOPT LETHAL INJECTION
All 14 cities in northeast China's Liaoning Province are expected to have adopted the lethal injection as the
AUGUST 21, 2009ChinaDEATH PENALTYCHINA: EX-MAYOR SENTENCED TO DEATH
the former mayor of Chifeng, in northern China, was sentenced to death and fined 100,000 yuan for taking bribes from developers.
- 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.