CHINA TO APPLY DEATH PENALTY TO DESTROYERS OF POWER FACILITIES

China will apply the death penalty to those who damage electric power facilities, resulting in serious consequences. Anyone who damages electric power facilities and causes the following four types of serious consequences will be sentenced to imprisonment for 10 years, life imprisonment and even the death penalty, according to the judicial interpretation issued by the Supreme People's Court (SPC) of China. In line with article 119 of China's criminal law, the four kinds of grave consequences are: 1- killing one or more people, seriously injuring at least three people, or slightly injuring 10 people or more; 2- causing power cuts for six hours or longer which affect 10,000 households or industrial production; 3- causing direct economic losses of over 1 million yuan (131,500 U.S. dollars), and 4- causing other serious consequences that endanger public security.