China
Death penalty and prisoners' rights · Archive since 1999
Data card
- Legal status
- Retentionist
- Executions recorded in 2026
- 0
- Executions recorded in 2025
- 0
- First news item in the archive
- JANUARY 1, 1999 · In January, the Nanyang Intermediate People's Court...
- News items in the archive
- 2,785
Source: Hands Off Cain database, updated to 2026.
China is classified as Retentionist in the Hands Off Cain database, updated to 2026. In 2026 the association recorded 0 executions in the country, against 0 the year before. The archive holds 2,785 news items on China, from 1999 to today.
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- NOVEMBER 23, 2011ChinaDEATH PENALTY
CHINA: RUSSIAN WOMAN SENTENCED TO DEATH IN CHINA FOR DRUG-TRAFFICKING
Russian national Marina Lopatina, 37, a Khabarovsk resident, was sentenced to death with a two year reprieve by a court in the Chinese city of Zhuhai, the Russian Embassy in Beijing said.
NOVEMBER 22, 2011ChinaDEATH PENALTYCHINA: MAN EXECUTED OVER CHILD RAPE
in China, Lishui karaoke bar owner Chen Weijun, 42, was executed for raping 14
- NOVEMBER 14, 2011ChinaDEATH PENALTY
CHINA TO EXECUTE THREE FOR HOTEL ARSON
three men are to be executed in China for setting fire to a hotel in the northeast province
NOVEMBER 9, 2011ChinaDEATH PENALTYCHINA: THREE SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR KILLING TAX OFFICIAL, FAMILY
three people were sentenced to death for killing a tax official and three of his family members in
NOVEMBER 9, 2011ChinaDEATH PENALTYCHINA: CITY OFFICIAL EXECUTED FOR GRAFT
A city official convicted of graft was executed in China after the highest court approved her death sentence, the state-run Xinhua News Agency reported.
NOVEMBER 8, 2011ChinaDEATH PENALTYCHINA: DEATH SENTENCE FOR GRAFT BOSS
in China, former boss of the Shanghai Pharmacy Group Wu Jianwen, 42, was sentenced
- NOVEMBER 7, 2011ChinaDEATH PENALTY
CHINA: BROTHERS, FATHER GET DEATH SENTENCE FOR FRAUD
two brothers and their father were sentenced to death for cheating 15,000 investors out
SEPTEMBER 29, 2011ChinaDEATH PENALTYCHINA: MAN EXECUTED AFTER RARE RETRIAL
a man convicted of killing a young woman and her 3-year-old brother after his offer
- SEPTEMBER 23, 2011ChinaDEATH PENALTY
CHINA: TWO SENTENCED TO DEATH
the Intermediate People's Court of Xiangtan, in China's Hunan Province, sentenced Wang Yongzhong, the
SEPTEMBER 22, 2011ChinaDEATH PENALTYCHINA: PRISONS ALLOW DEATH ROW INMATES TO MEET RELATIVES
China has made strides in protecting the human rights of prison inmates in recent years, including
SEPTEMBER 21, 2011ChinaDEATH PENALTYCHINA: PAKISTANI MAN EXECUTED ON DRUGS CHARGES
China executed by lethal injection Pakistani man Zahid Husain Shah, 35, in Shanghai. He was
- SEPTEMBER 20, 2011ChinaDEATH PENALTY
SINGAPORE: CHINESE NATIONAL GETS DEATH SENTENCE FOR CABBY MURDER
in Singapore, High Court Justice Lee Seiu Kin sentenced odd-job labourer and Chinese national Wang Wenfeng, 32, to death for murdering taxi driver Yuen Swee Hong, 58, in an attempted robbery in Sembawang on April 11, 2009.
- SEPTEMBER 16, 2011ChinaDEATH PENALTY
CHINA: BEIJING MAN EXECUTED FOR KILLING SIX OF HIS FAMILY
Li Lei, 31, was executed in Beijing, China, for killing his parents, two sons, wife and sister to death on November 23, 2009, at their home in Beijing's Daxing District
- SEPTEMBER 16, 2011ChinaDEATH PENALTY
CHINA MUST HALT EXECUTION OF PAKISTAN NATIONAL
the Chinese government should halt the imminent execution of a Pakistan national, Amnesty International said. Syed Zahid Hussain Shah, a 36-year-old-Pakistani businessman, is due to be executed by lethal injection on September 21.
- SEPTEMBER 13, 2011ChinaDEATH PENALTY
CHINA: CIVIL SERVANT GETS SUSPENDED DEATH PENALTY FOR EMBEZZLEMENT
Liu Di, an accountant from a taxation bureau in Heshan District of Yiyang city in Central Hunan province, was sentenced to death with a two-year reprieve for embezzling 18 million yuan from 2000 to 2010, according to the first instance judgement of the Yi
SEPTEMBER 13, 2011ChinaDEATH PENALTYCHINA: 4 UIGHUR MEN SENTENCED TO DEATH OVER ATTACKS
four ethnic minority men were sentenced to death for the latest spate of violent attacks
- SEPTEMBER 10, 2011ChinaDEATH PENALTY
CHINA: PAKISTANI FAMILY APPEALS TO CHINA OVER DEATH SENTENCE
the family of Pakistani national Zahid Hussain appealed to the Chinese authorities to commute his death sentence for drug trafficking to life imprisonment on humanitarian grounds.
- SEPTEMBER 3, 2011ChinaDEATH PENALTY
CHINESE EXECUTED FOR ATTACKING FEMALE STUDENTS
a man who repeatedly stabbed female students over four years, leaving one dead and 23
SEPTEMBER 1, 2011ChinaDEATH PENALTYCHINA: 2 EXECUTED AFTER COURT TURNS DOWN THEIR APPEAL
in northeast China, property developer Wang Wenxiang, 51, and his secretary
- AUGUST 30, 2011ChinaDEATH PENALTY
DEATH FOR CHINA MOBILE MAN
China handed Li Hua, former chairman and general manager of the Sichuan branch of China Mobile
- AUGUST 22, 2011ChinaDEATH PENALTY
CHINA: MAN SENTENCED TO DEATH AGAIN
the Zhaotong Provincial Higher People's Court in southwest China's Yunnan Province sentenced Li Changkui to death.
AUGUST 19, 2011ChinaDEATH PENALTYSRI LANKA: FIVE CHINESE SENTENCED TO DEATH
five Chinese nationals were sentenced to death in Sri Lanka, two in absentia, for murdering
- AUGUST 18, 2011ChinaDEATH PENALTY
CHINA EXECUTES MAN FOR RUNNING OVER MONGOL HERDER
according to the official Xinhua News Agency, China executed truck driver
- AUGUST 15, 2011ChinaDEATH PENALTY
CHINA SENTENCES MAN TO DEATH FOR ABDUCTION OF CHILDREN, MURDER
Umair Tohti was sentenced to death in northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region for abducting children and murder, the Urumqi Municipal Intermediate People's Court announced.
- AUGUST 10, 2011ChinaDEATH PENALTY
CHINA: SUSPENDED DEATH PENALTY UPHELD OVER TAINTED PORK SCANDAL
in central China, the Henan Provincial Higher People's Court upheld the death sentence with a two-year reprieve for Liu Xiang for "endangering public security using dangerous means" for feeding pigs the dangerous chemical clenbuterol in a tainted pork sca
- AUGUST 2, 2011ChinaDEATH PENALTY
FORMER CHINA MOBILE EXECUTIVE DROPS DEATH VERDICT APPEAL
the former deputy general manager of China Mobile, Zhang Chunjiang, gave up his right to appeal his death sentence after being convicted of taking bribes. Chunjiang was sentenced to death on July 23, 2011, by the Intermediate People's Court of Cangzhou.
- AUGUST 1, 2011ChinaDEATH PENALTY
CHINESE POLICE EXECUTES TWO OVER VIOLENCE: GOVERNMENT
police in China’s restive Xinjiang region executed two people allegedly involved in deadly violence over the weekend, local authorities said.
- JULY 26, 2011ChinaDEATH PENALTY
CHINA: MAN GETS DEATH FOR FAKE MONEY SCAM
a man was sentenced to death in south China's Guangdong Province for forging
- JULY 25, 2011ChinaDEATH PENALTY
CHINA: MAN SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR TAINTING PORK
the Intermediate People's Court of Jiaozuo, in China's Henan province, sentenced Liu Xiang to death with a two-year reprieve for illegally dealing in clenbuterol, a poisonous chemical known as lean meat powder.
- JULY 23, 2011CanadaDEATH PENALTY
CANADA DEPORTS TOP CHINESE FUGITIVE
China arrested its most wanted fugitive in the capital Beijing after Canada deported him to end a decades-long saga that had plagued Sino-Canadian relations, but concerns remained among activists about whether he would receive a fair trial.