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 24, 2022ChinaDEATH PENALTY
CHINA: KILLER OF POPULAR VLOGGER LAMU EXECUTED
A Chinese man was executed by a court in Southwest China's Sichuan Province on 23 July 2022 for setting his ex-wife, who was also a Chinese Douyin influencer, on fire during livestream and caused the latter's death.
JULY 20, 2022ChinaDEATH PENALTYCHINA: 3 MEN SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR MURDER OF NANJING STUDENT
Three men on 7 July 2022 were sentenced to death for the murder of Li Mouyue in Menghai county, Yunnan province.
- JUNE 7, 2022ChinaDEATH PENALTY
CHINA: EX-SECURITIES REGULATOR HANDED SUSPENDED DEATH SENTENCE
Tong Daochi, a former senior Chinese official who has worked at the World Bank, has been given a suspended death sentence for bribery.
- APRIL 24, 2022ChinaDEATH PENALTY
CHINA: AMERICAN MURDER SUSPECT SENTENCED TO DEATH
Shadeed Abdulmateen, an American national, was sentenced to death for intentional homicide by the Intermediate People's Court of Ningbo City in east China's Zhejiang Province on 21 April 2022.
- APRIL 6, 2022ChinaDEATH PENALTY
SURGEONS EXECUTED CHINESE PRISONERS FOR ORGANS, SAYS ANU STUDY
A new Australian study says it has unearthed evidence that surgeons in China have harvested the hearts of death row prisoners before they were medically brain-dead.
MARCH 9, 2022ChinaDEATH PENALTYCHINA: CHIEF JUSTICE CALLS FOR DEATH PENALTY FOR ‘CRUEL TREATMENT’ OF WOMEN, CHILDREN AND THE ELDERLY
China’s chief justice has called for the death penalty for serious offences involving “cruel treatment” of women, children and the elderly, in an apparent response to public fury over recently exposed human trafficking cases.
JANUARY 19, 2022ChinaDEATH PENALTYCHINA: 2 TO SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR SMUGGLING DRUGS TO TAIWAN
A Chinese court has sentenced 2 people to death for attempting to smuggle 400 kilograms of methamphetamine by sea from Southeast Asia to Taiwan, state media reported on 12 January 2022.
DECEMBER 29, 2021ChinaDEATH PENALTYCHINA: DEATH SENTENCE FOR MAN WHO THREW CHILDREN OUT WINDOW AND GIRLFRIEND WHO INSTIGATED THE MURDERS
A couple from western China’s Chongqing municipality were both sentenced to death on 28 December 2021 for conspiring to kill the man’s two young children from a previous marriage so they could start a new family.
- OCTOBER 31, 2021ChinaDEATH PENALTY
CHINA: HONGKONGER WITH HISTORY OF MENTAL ILLNESS EXECUTED OVER DRUG TRAFFICKING
A Hong Kong man who suffered from hallucinations and other mental health problems has been executed in mainland China where he was sentenced to death in 2017 for drug trafficking.
OCTOBER 14, 2021ChinaDEATH PENALTYCHINA: DEATH SENTENCE FOR MAN WHO SET FIRE ON LIVESTREAMING EX-WIFE
A man was sentenced to death by a court in southwest China on 14 October 2021 for dousing his ex-wife with gasoline and setting her on fire after she refused to get back with him.
- OCTOBER 3, 2021ChinaDEATH PENALTY
CHINA: FORMER PRESTIGIOUS COLLEGE ALUMNI SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR BRUTALLY KILLING HIS MOTHER
A young man who murdered his mother in 2015, a high-profile case as he was a student at the prestigious Peking University, was sentenced to death by a court in Fuzhou, East China's Fujian Province, on 26 August 2021.
- SEPTEMBER 21, 2021ChinaDEATH PENALTY
CHINA: MAN WHO KILLED HIS PREGNANT WIFE SENTENCED TO DEATH
Yan Haojie, the man who killed his pregnant wife after she refused to help him repay his gambling debts, has been sentenced to death, the Shanghai No.1 Intermediate People's Court announced on 30 July 2021.