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 18, 2006ChinaDEATH PENALTY
CHINA. MAN SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR RUNNING CART INTO WORKERS
a man was sentenced to death in Yiwu in China’s Zhejiang Province for intentionally ramming his tipcart into a crowd, killing three and injuring nine.
- DECEMBER 16, 2006ChinaDEATH PENALTY
CHINA. MIGRANT WORKER EXECUTED FOR MURDER
Pang Maosheng, a 29 year old migrant worker who resented wealthy people, was executed in Beijing after being convicted of a robbery and extortion spree that left one woman dead.
- DECEMBER 14, 2006ChinaDEATH PENALTY
CHINA EXECUTES TWO FORMER BANK EMPLOYEES FOR FRAUD
two ex-employees of China's third-largest bank were put to death by lethal injection for defrauding customers of millions of dollars.
- DECEMBER 13, 2006ChinaDEATH PENALTY
CHINA. FIREWORKS FACTORY MANAGER SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR BLAST KILLING 36
Shen Xishuan, legal representative of Lilin Firecrackers Company Ltd. in Linqi Town, Linzhou City in China’s Henan Province, was sentenced to death at the Intermediate People's Court of Anyang City with a two-year reprieve for illegally trading explosives
- DECEMBER 7, 2006ChinaDEATH PENALTY
CHINESE MAN GETS SUSPENDED DEATH SENTENCE FOR MURDERING JAPANESE
a court in Shenyang, northeastern China, sentenced 27-year-old Chinese national Zhou Bo to death for killing Japanese national Masahiko Sato in Fukuoka, south-western Japan, in May 2005.
- DECEMBER 6, 2006ChinaDEATH PENALTY
CHINESE SECRETLY EXECUTED AFTER PROTEST
a court in southwestern China has secretly executed a man who took part in an environmental protest which turned into a riot, a lawyer and a family member said. Three others were jailed, one of them for life, they said.
- DECEMBER 6, 2006ChinaDEATH PENALTY
CHINA. DEATH FOR WOMAN WHO STABBED LOVER TO DEATH
the shanghai No. 2 Intermediate People's Court sentenced Liao Yan...
- DECEMBER 4, 2006ChinaDEATH PENALTY
CHINA. MAN SENTENCED TO DEATH IN ANHUI FOR SERIAL RAPE
Shi Jidong, a farmer from Dingyuan, a county in east China's Anhui Province, was sentenced to death after being convicted of raping three girls and attempting to rape six more.
- DECEMBER 1, 2006ChinaDEATH PENALTY
CHINA. STATE EXECUTES MAN FOR MURDERS
Zhang Xianguang, 39, was executed immediately after a public trial in Shenyang...
- NOVEMBER 30, 2006ChinaDEATH PENALTY
CHINESE COURT SENTENCES MAN TO DEATH IN FATAL COUNTERFEIT LIQUOR CASE
the Higher People's Court in China’s Guangdong Province sentenced 27-year-old Cheng Caiming to death in the last instance for a counterfeit liquor scandal that left 14 people dead and 41 others injured.
- NOVEMBER 29, 2006ChinaDEATH PENALTY
CHINA. THREE PROTESTANT LEADERS CONDEMNED WITHOUT PROOF EXECUTED IN SECRET
the leaders of a Protestant group “Three Grades of Servants”, condemned to death without proof, were executed in secret last week, according to the China Aid Association (CAA), a US-based non-governmental organisation that lobbies for religious freedom in
- NOVEMBER 29, 2006ChinaDEATH PENALTY
CHINA. MAN SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR HAMMER KILLINGS
the Shanghai No. 2 Intermediate People's Court sentenced Zhang Weiyi...