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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- APRIL 29, 2009ChinaDEATH PENALTY
CHINA: MAN CONVICTED OF POLICE KILLING EXECUTED IN BEIJING
a man convicted of the killing of a Beijing police officer was executed by gunshot in China, according to the Beijing No.1 Intermediate People's Court. Zhang Xinlei, 24, was sentenced to death in November 2008 for killing Tang Chengwen, 39, in Mentougou d
- APRIL 29, 2009ChinaDEATH PENALTY
MALAYSIAN’S EXECUTION IMMINENT IN CHINA
“Malaysian Ong Kim Fatt’s execution is taking place after all avenues to commute his sentence were exhausted,” said MCA Public Services and Complaints Department head Datuk Michael Chong
- APRIL 24, 2009ChinaDEATH PENALTY
CHINA POST OFFICIAL GETS DEATH FOR STEALING $190 MLN
a southern China post office director was sentenced to death for stealing more than 1.3 billion yuan (US$190 million) to help pay her gambling debts, a local court said.
- APRIL 23, 2009ChinaDEATH PENALTY
CHINA: EX-GALAXY MANAGER LOSES APPEAL AGAINST DEATH PENALTY FOR STEALING
in China, a Beijing higher court rejected an appeal by a securities broker against his death sentence.
- APRIL 23, 2009ChinaDEATH PENALTY
MALAYSIA APPEALS TO CHINA FOR CLEMENCY
the Malaysian Foreign Ministry sent a clemency appeal for Malaysian Ong Kim Fatt who is on death row in China for drug trafficking, said its Deputy Minister Datuk Lee Chee Leong.
- APRIL 23, 2009ChinaDEATH PENALTY
CHINA: NIGERIAN EXECUTED FOR DRUG SMUGGLING
Nigerian national Chibuzor Vitus Ezekwem was executed in China after being found
- APRIL 21, 2009ChinaDEATH PENALTY
CHINA: 3 SENTENCED OVER ARSON IN 2008 TIBET RIOTS
the Tibet Daily reported that a Chinese court sentenced a Tibetan girl to death with a two-year reprieve and two others to long jail terms for setting fires that allegedly killed six people in the Lhasa riot in March 2008.
- APRIL 17, 2009ChinaDEATH PENALTY
FILIPINA GETS SUSPENDED DEATH SENTENCE FOR COCAINE TRAFFICKING
a Filipino woman was given the death penalty...
- APRIL 17, 2009ChinaDEATH PENALTY
EX-AIDE TO CHINA OFFICIAL SENTENCED TO DEATH
a Chinese court handed down capital punishment to a former aide to late Vice Premier Huang Ju for taking bribes worth 12.9 million yuan ($1.9 million) from 1995-2006, a website operated by People's Daily reported.
- APRIL 16, 2009ChinaDEATH PENALTY
MAN EXECUTED IN CENTRAL CHINA FOR SERIAL KILLINGS
junk collector Xiong Zhenlin was executed in Suizhou, in central China's Hubei Province.
- APRIL 14, 2009ChinaDEATH PENALTY
TCHRD URGES CHINA TO OVERTURN DEATH SENTENCES IN TIBET
the Tibetan Centre for Human Rights and Democracy (TCHRD) expressed its deepest concern at the first known cases of death sentences passed by the Lhasa Municipal Intermediate People’s Court in China on two Tibetans.
- APRIL 13, 2009ChinaDEATH PENALTY
CHINA POLICE OFFICER GETS DEATH PENALTY IN MURDER OF DRIVER
a policeman who shot another driver dead in China's southwest Yunnan Province on February 13, 2009, while off duty, following a minor traffic dispute, was found guilty of murder and sentenced to death.
- APRIL 13, 2009ChinaDEATH PENALTY
CHINA: MOVE TO SEEK CLEMENCY FOR MALAYSIAN HELD IN DEATH ROW
clemency is being sought for Ong Kim Fatt, a Malaysian who is facing a firing squad in China for drug smuggling.
- APRIL 13, 2009ChinaDEATH PENALTY
DEATH PENALTY TO BE STRICTLY CONTROLLED AND PRUDENTLY APPLIED IN CHINA
the death penalty will be strictly controlled and prudently applied, said the National Human Rights Action Plan of China (2009-2010) released by the Information Office of China's State Council.
- APRIL 10, 2009ChinaDEATH PENALTY
MALAWIAN DRUG TRAFFICKER GETS SUSPENDED DEATH PENALTY IN S CHINA CITY
a Malawian man received the death penalty with a two-year reprieve for trafficking more than 1,140 grams of heroin into China. The Intermediate People's Court of Guilin, a city in south China's Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, handed down the sentence. M
- APRIL 9, 2009ChinaDEATH PENALTY
CHINA: OVERTURN DEATH SENTENCES FOR TIBET PROTESTERS
Amnesty International condemned a decision by a court in Lhasa to hand down death sentences to two Tibetans accused of starting fatal fires in Lhasa during protests in March 2008.
APRIL 9, 2009ChinaDEATH PENALTYCHINA: TWO UYGURS EXECUTED OVER DEADLY ATTACK
China executed two Uygurs in the restive northwestern Xinjiang region for a ''terrorist''
- APRIL 8, 2009ChinaDEATH PENALTY
CHINA: FOUR TIBETANS SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR STARTING FIRES DURING UNREST IN LHASA
the Lhasa Municipal Intermediate People’s Court sentenced two Tibetans to death and two to death with a two-year reprieve for their role in the unrest in Lhasa in March 2008.
- APRIL 8, 2009ChinaDEATH PENALTY
CHINA: DEATH ROW MALAYSIAN IN CHINA FACES EXECUTION
a Malaysian man caught in Xiamen, China with 1.5kg of heroin in 2007 is to be executed in the People's Republic by a firing squad.
- APRIL 2, 2009ChinaDEATH PENALTY
CHINA: INDIAN ON CHINESE DEATH ROW GETS REPRIEVE
an Indian man found guilty in China of possessing narcotics had his death sentence commuted to life imprisonment.
- MARCH 27, 2009ChinaDEATH PENALTY
CHINA: MAN EXECUTED IN BEIJING FOR MURDER
the leader of a three-member gang was executed for robbery and murder in Beijing, China.
- MARCH 27, 2009ChinaDEATH PENALTY
Ugandan Foreign Affairs Minister, Sam Kutesa...
Ugandan Foreign Affairs Minister, Sam Kutesa...
MARCH 27, 2009ChinaDEATH PENALTYCHINA: ABDUCTOR OF NINE BOYS EXECUTED BY LETHAL INJECTION
The man convicted of leading a gang that abducted nine boys in central China's Henan
- MARCH 26, 2009ChinaDEATH PENALTY
CHINA MILK SCANDAL TERMS UPHELD
A court in north China's Hebei Province upheld two death sentences, a suspended death verdict and other convictions in the country's tainted milk scandal.
- MARCH 24, 2009ChinaDEATH PENALTY
British newspaper the Independent ran a report about a dozen “death buses” in use
British newspaper the Independent ran a report about a dozen “death buses” in use
- MARCH 20, 2009ChinaDEATH PENALTY
APPEAL TO CHINA'S SUPREME COURT
Wang Junbao appealed to the Chinese Supreme Court against his December 2007 death sentence for the murder of his wife.
- MARCH 19, 2009ChinaDEATH PENALTY
CHINA: DEATH SENTENCE FOR KILLING WIFE
in China, the Shanghai No. 1 Intermediate People's Court sentenced Qiu Jianhua to
- MARCH 13, 2009ChinaDEATH PENALTY
CHINESE TEEN GETS DEATH
the Chinese teenager convicted of murdering Canadian model Diana O'Brien in 2008 was sentenced to death with a two-year reprieve.
- MARCH 10, 2009ChinaDEATH PENALTY
China's Prosecutor-General Cao Jianming delivered the report on the work...
China's Prosecutor-General Cao Jianming delivered the report on the work...
- MARCH 6, 2009ChinaDEATH PENALTY
TEN CONVICTED IN CHINA MILK SCANDAL APPEAL SENTENCES: COURT
ten people who were convicted and sentenced to jail or death in the lawsuits related to China's 2008 milk scandal appealed, said a local court president.