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
JULY 2, 2023ChinaDEATH PENALTYCHINA: WIFE KILLER SENTENCED TO DEATH IN SHANGHAI
A man who killed his wife and then attempted to hide her body in a freezer in Shanghai was sentenced to death on June 29, 2023.
JUNE 29, 2023ChinaDEATH PENALTYCHINA: COURT UPHOLDS DEATH SENTENCE ON MAN FOR ENDANGERING PUBLIC SECURITY WITH DANGEROUS METHODS
Guangdong High People's Court upheld a ruling by a lower court that sentenced Wen Qingyun to death for endangering public security with dangerous methods in a final judgment on June 28, 2023.
MAY 31, 2023ChinaDEATH PENALTYCHINA: DEATH SENTENCE UPHELD FOR SON WHO KILLED MOM
The death sentence handed down to a former Peking University student who killed his mother was upheld by the Fujian High People's Court on May 31, 2023.
MAY 13, 2023ChinaDEATH PENALTYCHINA: DEATH UPHELD FOR FATHER, GIRLFRIEND IN CHILD TOSSING
A father in Chongqing who killed his two children by tossing them out of a high-rise apartment window in 2020 along with his girlfriend, who prompted him, were both sentenced to death on May 11, 2023.
APRIL 23, 2023ChinaDEATH PENALTYCHINA: MAN SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR PLOUGHING CAR INTO PEDESTRIANS, KILLING 5
A driver who killed five and injured 13 others by ploughing his car into pedestrians in China in January has been sentenced to death, a Guangzhou court said on April 18, 2023.
MARCH 21, 2023ChinaDEATH PENALTYCHINA: MAN WHO KILLED WIFE EXECUTED IN HANGZHOU
Xu Guoli, who killed his wife in 2020, was executed on 21 March 2023 in Hangzhou, Zhejiang province, after the Hangzhou Intermediate People's Court approved his death sentence, which was handed down in July 2021.
DECEMBER 26, 2022ChinaDEATH PENALTYCHINA: FORMER MAYOR RECEIVES SUSPENDED DEATH SENTENCE FOR CORRUPTION
A former mayor of Hegang, a city in Northeast China's Heilongjiang province, was sentenced to death with a two-year reprieve on 23 December 2022 for multiple crimes involving corruption, according to a local court.
SEPTEMBER 29, 2022ChinaDEATH PENALTYCHINA: OFFICIAL GETS DEATH FOR CORRUPTION INVOLVING 3B YUAN
Li Jianping, a former senior Party official in the economic and technological development zone in Hohhot, Inner Mongolia autonomous region, was sentenced to death for multiple crimes on 27 September 2022.
- SEPTEMBER 25, 2022ChinaDEATH PENALTY
CHINA: EX-VICE MINISTER OF PUBLIC SECURITY SENTENCED TO DEATH WITH TWO-YEAR REPRIEVE
Sun Lijun, former Chinese vice minister of public security, on 23 September 2022 was sentenced to death with a two-year reprieve for taking more than 646 million yuan of bribes, manipulating the stock market, and illegally possessing firearms, according t
SEPTEMBER 22, 2022ChinaDEATH PENALTYCHINA: FORMER SENIOR OFFICIAL FU ZHENGHUA SENTENCED TO DEATH WITH REPRIEVE
Former senior official Fu Zhenghua on 22 September 2022 was sentenced to
- SEPTEMBER 21, 2022ChinaDEATH PENALTY
CHINA: MAN WHO ARRANGED GIRLFRIEND'S MURDER SENTENCED TO DEATH
A man in Nanjing, Jiangsu province, who lured his girlfriend to faraway Yunnan province and then asked two accomplices to kill her, was sentenced to death in Kunming, Yunnan on 20 September 2022.
AUGUST 30, 2022ChinaDEATH PENALTYCHINA: U.S. CITIZEN SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR MURDER LOSES APPEAL
A U.S. citizen sentenced to death by a Chinese court for "intentional homicide" of his former girlfriend lost his appeal on 25 August 2022, state broadcaster CCTV reported.