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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- SEPTEMBER 6, 2002ChinaDEATH PENALTY
A Beijing court ordered the execution of Lu Wanhua,...
A Beijing court ordered the execution of Lu Wanhua, chairman of Beijing Haiziwan Precision Chemical Limited Company, Beijing Taikang Bio-Medicine Limited Company and Singapore Guoyuxuan Stock Holding Private Limited Company, for using fake financial certi
- SEPTEMBER 5, 2002ChinaDEATH PENALTY
Dong Wei, 26, who escaped execution by four minutes...
Dong Wei, 26, who escaped execution by four minutes on April 28 after an appeal judge managed to reach the executioner by mobile phone four minutes prior to his execution, was finally executed
- SEPTEMBER 5, 2002ChinaDEATH PENALTY
A Ministry of Public Security newspaper reported that...
A Ministry of Public Security newspaper reported that the Ningbo Intermediate People's Court, in Zhejiang Province, sentenced Ren Yueming, manager of Yinxian County Sanyou Materials Trading Company, to death with two years reprieve and confiscation of all
- SEPTEMBER 3, 2002ChinaDEATH PENALTY
The Legal Daily reported that the Zhengzhou Intermediate...
The Legal Daily reported that the Zhengzhou Intermediate People's Court, in Henan Province, sentenced Chen Bingkun to death for financial fraud
- SEPTEMBER 3, 2002ChinaDEATH PENALTY
Three young men, all convicted of killing girlfriends,...
Three young men, all convicted of killing girlfriends, were executed in Beijing
- AUGUST 30, 2002ChinaDEATH PENALTY
Two men including Li Zhen, the former head of north...
Two men including Li Zhen, the former head of north China's Hebei provincial tax department was sentenced to death for corruption
- AUGUST 28, 2002ChinaDEATH PENALTY
The People's Daily reported that a former employee...
The People's Daily reported that a former employee in Air China's finance department was sentenced to death for embezzling 24
- AUGUST 26, 2002ChinaDEATH PENALTY
Yang Ning was executed for embezzlement
Yang Ning was executed for embezzlement
- AUGUST 21, 2002ChinaDEATH PENALTY
The Legal Daily reported that a court in Hunan Province...
The Legal Daily reported that a court in Hunan Province ordered the execution of Zou Dongfan and Yang Jiaowen for issuance of false tax invoices
- AUGUST 21, 2002ChinaDEATH PENALTY
The Intermediate People's Court in Shaoyang, Hunan...
The Intermediate People's Court in Shaoyang, Hunan Province, sentenced Zhou Shaoqiu and Tan Longzhou to death for issuance of false value added specialized tax invoices
- AUGUST 21, 2002ChinaDEATH PENALTY
The Guangzhou Intermediate People's Court, in Guangdong...
The Guangzhou Intermediate People's Court, in Guangdong Province, sentenced alleged drug traffickers Zou Shaohua a Malaysian, and Liu Songwen, to death with two years reprieve, the Yangcheng Evening News reported
- AUGUST 19, 2002ChinaDEATH PENALTY
UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Mary Robinson...
UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Mary Robinson said China needed to rely on political reform rather than repression to deal with growing social unrest
- AUGUST 18, 2002ChinaDEATH PENALTY
The Legal Daily reported that a court in Liuzhou, southwest...
The Legal Daily reported that a court in Liuzhou, southwest Guangxi Province, executed Ma Lin and Jiang Baolin, respectively chairman and president of Sanmeng Industry and Trade Ltd Co
- AUGUST 17, 2002ChinaDEATH PENALTY
Nine people convicted of violent robberies, in four...
Nine people convicted of violent robberies, in four of which their victims died, were executed in Beijing, media said
- AUGUST 16, 2002ChinaDEATH PENALTY
Shanghai held a sentencing rally for major violent...
Shanghai held a sentencing rally for major violent crimes, including robbing, snatching away people's property and seriously threatening people's safety
- AUGUST 16, 2002ChinaDEATH PENALTY
Three Hong Kong men found guilty of drug trafficking...
Three Hong Kong men found guilty of drug trafficking and possession were executed in Shenzhen after their appeals were rejected by the Guangdong Province People's High Court
- AUGUST 15, 2002ChinaDEATH PENALTY
The Guangzhou Intermediate People's Court, in Guangdong...
The Guangzhou Intermediate People's Court, in Guangdong Province, tried 24 people for participating in criminal syndicates, intentional assault, blackmail, kidnapping and extortion
- AUGUST 15, 2002ChinaDEATH PENALTY
Zhou Guanglong was convicted by the Guangzhou Intermediate...
Zhou Guanglong was convicted by the Guangzhou Intermediate People's Court of organizing gangsters, injuring and blackmailing people, illegally carrying weapons and other serious crimes and sentenced to death
- AUGUST 14, 2002ChinaDEATH PENALTY
The Yunnan Daily reported that the Intermediate People's...
The Yunnan Daily reported that the Intermediate People's Court in Dali Bai Autonomous Prefecture, southwest Yunnan Province, sentenced Yang Hongying, female, to death with two years reprieve, deprivation of political rights for life, and confiscation of a
- AUGUST 13, 2002ChinaDEATH PENALTY
Zhou Qidong, former member of Anhui Province's Wuhu...
Zhou Qidong, former member of Anhui Province's Wuhu City Party Committee Standing Committee and secretary of the city political science and law commission, who hired killers to kill a woman, was executed together with Zhao Zhenghe, Wang Changchun, and Yua
- AUGUST 9, 2002ChinaDEATH PENALTY
Xiamen Intermediate People's Court, in Fujian Province,...
Xiamen Intermediate People's Court, in Fujian Province, sentenced Zhao Keming, Xiamen vice-mayor, to death with two years reprieve and confiscation of all assets for accepting bribes
- AUGUST 9, 2002ChinaDEATH PENALTY
Hangzhou Intermediate People's Court, in Zhejiang Province,...
Hangzhou Intermediate People's Court, in Zhejiang Province, sentenced Zhou Hang, director of the Provincial Pharmaceutical Supervision Administration, to death with a two year reprieve
- AUGUST 8, 2002ChinaDEATH PENALTY
A mail bomb designer in east China was sentenced to...
A mail bomb designer in east China was sentenced to death with a two-year reprieve by a local court
- AUGUST 7, 2002ChinaDEATH PENALTY
Shaoyang Intermediate People's Court, in Hunan Province,...
Shaoyang Intermediate People's Court, in Hunan Province, sentenced Yang Fengjie, Zhou Xiaoqiao, Xie Xiheng and Liu Huaying to death
- AUGUST 6, 2002ChinaDEATH PENALTY
Nigerians Johnson Oshodi, Tunde Apatira, Oladotun Lukmanu...
Nigerians Johnson Oshodi, Tunde Apatira, Oladotun Lukmanu Umaru and a Chinese national from Hong Kong, Chu Tak Fai, appealed to the Malaysia Federal Court for a revision of their death sentences following a decision by the Court of Appeal acquitting mecha
- AUGUST 6, 2002ChinaDEATH PENALTY
A court in Lanzhou, Gansu Province, sentenced alleged...
A court in Lanzhou, Gansu Province, sentenced alleged gangster, Xie Lingling to death for participating in a criminal syndicate and committing homicide
- AUGUST 4, 2002ChinaDEATH PENALTY
Passengers on board a long-distance coach travelling...
Passengers on board a long-distance coach travelling from Sichuan to Guangdong province looked on as a Chinese man raped three women five times during the three-day journey
- AUGUST 2, 2002ChinaDEATH PENALTY
Hong Kong drug trafficker Chung Bi-shing, 34, was sentenced...
Hong Kong drug trafficker Chung Bi-shing, 34, was sentenced to death by a Shenzhen court after being caught trying to smuggle 1
- AUGUST 1, 2002ChinaDEATH PENALTY
Li Ping from Haozhou city, Anhui province, was sentenced...
Li Ping from Haozhou city, Anhui province, was sentenced to death by Haozhou Intermediate People's Court in February last year for the murder of farmer Li Jinggang in 1993
- JULY 30, 2002ChinaDEATH PENALTY
Small-sized Henan Securities' former Chairman and General...
Small-sized Henan Securities' former Chairman and General Manager Hu Yan was sentenced to death for corruption and the misuse of corporate funds, the Shanghai Securities News reported