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
- NOVEMBER 27, 2006ChinaDEATH PENALTY
CHINA. DEATH SENTENCE FOR MAN CONVICTED OF STABBING 12 TO DEATH
Shi Yuejun, 35, was sentenced to death for stabbing 12 people to death and injured five in a six-day spree in Tonghua in northeast China's Jilin Province.
- NOVEMBER 24, 2006ChinaDEATH PENALTY
CHINA. MAN SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR MURDER
the Shanghai No. 2 Intermediate People's Court sentenced Qiao Ruqian...
- NOVEMBER 21, 2006CanadaDEATH PENALTY
CHINA WILL NOT EXECUTE CANADIAN ACCUSED OF TERRORISM
Canada received assurances from Beijing that Huseyin Celil, 37...
- NOVEMBER 17, 2006ChinaDEATH PENALTY
CHINA ADMITS ORGANS FROM EXECUTED PRISONERS SOLD TO TOURISTS
China acknowledged the practice of "transplant tourism," in which the organs of executed prisoners are sold to foreigners, and said it wants to regulate the sale of kidneys, livers and other body parts.
- NOVEMBER 17, 2006ChinaDEATH PENALTY
CHINA. FOUR BROTHERS SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR RUNNING CRIME GANG
four brothers who headed a north China organized crime gang were sentenced to death at the Hebei Provincial Higher People's Court.
- NOVEMBER 16, 2006ChinaDEATH PENALTY
CHINA. DEATH PENALTY FOR WEAPONS SMUGGLERS
China's Supreme People's Court announced that anyone found smuggling more than ten artillery shells across the country's borders would receive the death penalty or life imprisonment.
- NOVEMBER 13, 2006ChinaDEATH PENALTY
CHINA. INTERNET CAFE BOMBERS SENTENCED TO DEATH
unemployed Lu Dongming, 45, and his 24-year-old nephew Lu Kuan were sentenced to death for detonating homemade bombs in two Internet cafes in the eastern Chinese city of Hefei...
- NOVEMBER 9, 2006ChinaDEATH PENALTY
CHINA. COURTS ORDERED TO RESTRICT USE OF DEATH PENALTY
in China's latest move to control the use of the death penalty, the chief justice urged courts to exercise extreme caution when sentencing people to death, saying that every judgement must stand the test of time.
- NOVEMBER 9, 2006ChinaDEATH PENALTY
CHINA. MAN SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR MURDER OF SEVEN NIGHTCLUB DANCERS
a former manager of an elevator factory was sentenced to death for murdering and dismembering seven women he paid to dance with in nightclubs in the northeastern city of Shenyang.
- NOVEMBER 9, 2006ChinaDEATH PENALTY
CHINA. CHIEF JUDGE FACES DEATH PENALTY
the former chief judge of China's Hunan Higher People's Court was sentenced to death at a trial in Beijing for accepting millions of yuan worth of bribes.
- NOVEMBER 2, 2006ChinaDEATH PENALTY
CHINA DOUBLES NUMBER OF JUDGES REVIEWING DEATH SENTENCES
China's Supreme Court doubled the size of its death penalty review team to 100 judges to cope with a new law requiring the court to approve all executions, a news report said.
- OCTOBER 28, 2006ChinaDEATH PENALTY
CHINA. MAN SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR MURDER
Chen Bijun was sentenced to death for murder by the Shanghai No. 1 Intermediate People's Court.