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
- DECEMBER 17, 2007ChinaDEATH PENALTY
GOVERNMENT OFFICIAL SENTENCED TO DEATH IN CHINA
Xuan Xiong, a top fisheries official in southern China's Guangdong province was sentenced to death for the murder of a man that was to take over his job...
- DECEMBER 17, 2007ChinaDEATH PENALTY
CHINA CHIEF SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR KILLING AMBITIOUS DEPUTY
a chief who killed his ambitious deputy in Guangdong Province in China was sentenced to death
- DECEMBER 11, 2007ChinaDEATH PENALTY
CHINA: VILLAGE HEAD GETS DEATH SENTENCE FOR MURDER
a village chief in central China's Henan Province was sentenced to death...
- DECEMBER 6, 2007ChinaDEATH PENALTY
CHINESE HIGHWAY EXECUTIVE SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR CORRUPTION
a transport executive accused of corruption involving a total of 50 million yuan (US$6.8 million) was sentenced to death in north eastern China, the official Xinhua News Agency reported.
- DECEMBER 5, 2007ChinaDEATH PENALTY
CHINA: DEATH SENTENCE FOR PAIR WHO KILLED EIGHT IN CRIME SPREE
two men were sentenced to death after going on a nationwide crime spree in which they killed eight people, including a two year old boy, state press said.
- DECEMBER 3, 2007ChinaDEATH PENALTY
CHINA: MAN SENTENCED DEATH FOR BURNING PREGNANT GIRL
a man was sentenced to death by the Shenyang Intermediate People's Court in China for burning his pregnant girlfriend because the child she was carrying was a girl.
- DECEMBER 3, 2007ChinaDEATH PENALTY
CHINA: DEATH SENTENCES FOR PAIR WHO KILLED RIVAL
Li Shuangjian, a woman from Anhui Province in China, and a friend were sentenced to death...
- NOVEMBER 29, 2007ChinaDEATH PENALTY
CHINA. PENALTY GUIDELINES SET FOR FAKE DRUGS
a draft judicial interpretation spells out the circumstances in which life sentences or the death penalty can be
- NOVEMBER 26, 2007ChinaDEATH PENALTY
CHINA: MAN SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR RAPING GIRLS AS YOUNG AS 8
a court in Xiamen, a coastal city in east China's Fujian Province, sentenced a man to death for raping and sexually assaulting girls aged between eight and twelve.
- NOVEMBER 25, 2007ChinaDEATH PENALTY
CHINA: OFFICIAL SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR DRUG SMUGGLING
Zheng Guoliang, former deputy to the Anhui Provincial People's Congress in east China, was sentenced to death with a two-year reprieve for drug smuggling and illegal gun possession, local sources confirmed
- NOVEMBER 23, 2007ChinaDEATH PENALTY
CHINA. SUSPENDED DEATH SENTENCES EXCEED IMMEDIATE EXECUTIONS FOR 1ST TIME
the number of suspended death sentences handed down this year in China
- NOVEMBER 22, 2007CanadaDEATH PENALTY
CAR SMUGGLING GANG LEADER GETS DEATH PENALTY
the leader of a smuggling ring was given the death penalty, suspended for two years...