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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- JANUARY 1, 2001ChinaDEATH PENALTY
China also condemned to death and executed many people...
China also condemned to death and executed many people in accord with the national campaign against corruption, which was strengthened after March's annual session of the National People's Congress
- JANUARY 1, 2001ChinaDEATH PENALTY
On April 14, 2000, Prison governor Jiayong Renqing...
On April 14, 2000, Prison governor Jiayong Renqing of Lhasa jail in Tibet said that the number of prisoners in Tibet jails represents 0
- JANUARY 1, 2001ChinaDEATH PENALTY
Domestic consumption of drugs is becoming `more serious...
Domestic consumption of drugs is becoming `more serious with each passing day', according to an official white paper, which acknowledges that `the situation is grim for the anti-drug struggle
- JANUARY 1, 2001ChinaDEATH PENALTY
Death sentences are often pronounced in public and...
Death sentences are often pronounced in public and the condemned prisoner is presented to the crowd and forced to bow his head and wear a sign with the name of his crime written on it around his neck
- JANUARY 1, 2001ChinaDEATH PENALTY
Amnesty International believes that in actual fact...
Amnesty International believes that in actual fact the number of death sentences and executions is much higher than the figures in their possession; this is because the Chinese authorities never publish statistics on the death penalty as they are consider
- JANUARY 1, 2001ChinaDEATH PENALTY
China still holds the record for executions
China still holds the record for executions
- JANUARY 1, 2001ChinaDEATH PENALTY
A revised Criminal Procedure Law came into force in...
A revised Criminal Procedure Law came into force in January 1997
- DECEMBER 29, 2000ChinaDEATH PENALTY
At least 24 Uighur Muslims from the Xinjiang Uighur...
At least 24 Uighur Muslims from the Xinjiang Uighur Autonomous Region were executed in 2000 on charges of separatism
- DECEMBER 28, 2000ChinaDEATH PENALTY
The Guangdong Provincial Higher People's Court upheld...
The Guangdong Provincial Higher People's Court upheld a September 24 sentence to death handed out by the Intermediate People's Court of Shanwei City to seven principal members of a 12-men criminal ring, including Zhuo Zhenyuan
- DECEMBER 28, 2000ChinaDEATH PENALTY
Zhu Rongji, the Prime Minister, promised severe punishment...
Zhu Rongji, the Prime Minister, promised severe punishment for those responsible for the fire in a discotheque in the central Chinese city of Luoyang on Christmas night that killed 309 people
- DECEMBER 27, 2000ChinaDEATH PENALTY
China announced a new spate of high-level corruption...
China announced a new spate of high-level corruption cases as President Jiang Zemin warned the nation to prepare for a "long-term and arduous" struggle for clean government
- DECEMBER 23, 2000ChinaDEATH PENALTY
Zhao Xujie, a former laundry company manager was executed...
Zhao Xujie, a former laundry company manager was executed in Shanghai for stabbing a bank guard to death during a robbery, on June 5
- DECEMBER 22, 2000ChinaDEATH PENALTY
Lin Zhiguo, former deputy director of the Siping City...
Lin Zhiguo, former deputy director of the Siping City Chemical Industry Bureau, was sentenced to death by the Jilin Provincial Higher People's Court for receiving bribes when he was manager of the Siping City Paint Plant
- DECEMBER 22, 2000ChinaDEATH PENALTY
Qiao Benping, deputy manager of a state-owned international...
Qiao Benping, deputy manager of a state-owned international trade company in Changchun City of northeast China's Jilin Province, was sentenced to death for embezzlement, misuse of funds and accepting bribes valued at 15
- DECEMBER 22, 2000ChinaDEATH PENALTY
Li Yaping, head of a gang of robbers, who organised...
Li Yaping, head of a gang of robbers, who organised 45 robberies and thefts in several Beijing districts, was sentenced to death by the No
- DECEMBER 21, 2000ChinaDEATH PENALTY
Yu Bufan, a state engineering company manager, was...
Yu Bufan, a state engineering company manager, was sentenced to death by the Xiamen Intermediate Court for taking bribes worth 2
- DECEMBER 18, 2000ChinaDEATH PENALTY
The Hebei Higher People's Court examined and approved...
The Hebei Higher People's Court examined and approved the death penalty, to be executed by a firing squad, passed on Li Yonghui, a convict involved in a bombing case in Shijiazhuang that had attracted public attention
- DECEMBER 18, 2000ChinaDEATH PENALTY
Five criminals were executed in Beijing after being...
Five criminals were executed in Beijing after being convicted of violent crimes, including murder and armed robbery
- DECEMBER 13, 2000ChinaDEATH PENALTY
At the military-run Medical University in Chongqing,...
At the military-run Medical University in Chongqing, an official confirmed that around 100 kidney transplants a year are carried out and most of the recipients are from South-east Asia
- DECEMBER 12, 2000ChinaDEATH PENALTY
The Yulin City Intermediate People's Court handed down...
The Yulin City Intermediate People's Court handed down a death sentence to Wu Gengyue, former deputy magistrate of Luchuan County for accepting 6
- DECEMBER 12, 2000ChinaDEATH PENALTY
Channel Four, a British television, reported that hundreds...
Channel Four, a British television, reported that hundreds of Malaysians on dialysis treatment have gone to China and paid the equivalent of 9C7,500 (S$18,900) to receive kidneys from executed criminals
- DECEMBER 7, 2000ChinaDEATH PENALTY
China executed Taiwan national Chen Kun-Zhang for producing...
China executed Taiwan national Chen Kun-Zhang for producing and selling 25kg of the drug "ice"
- NOVEMBER 29, 2000ChinaDEATH PENALTY
A court in China's Anhui Province sentenced Xiao Zuoxin,...
A court in China's Anhui Province sentenced Xiao Zuoxin, the former mayor of Fuyang to life imprisonment for corruption and his wife Zhou Jimei to two years of probation followed by death for accepting bribes totalling over 1
- NOVEMBER 24, 2000ChinaDEATH PENALTY
A Sichuan court carried out the execution order on...
A Sichuan court carried out the execution order on Lan Yike, a cadre of the Sichuan Province Foreign Exchange Administration Bureau, for embezzling public funds
- NOVEMBER 23, 2000ChinaDEATH PENALTY
The Nanjing Municipal Intermediate People's Court sentenced...
The Nanjing Municipal Intermediate People's Court sentenced Sui Zhennan, director of the Gaoxin Development Zone, Nanjing Sub-Branch of the Industrial and Commercial Bank of China, to death with a two-year reprieve for accepting bribes and corruption
- NOVEMBER 23, 2000ChinaDEATH PENALTY
The Changchun Municipal Intermediate People's Court...
The Changchun Municipal Intermediate People's Court sentenced Lu Mang and Meng Wie to death for financial fraud
- NOVEMBER 23, 2000ChinaDEATH PENALTY
Lai Changxing, 46, said to be the mastermind of a multi-billion-dollar...
Lai Changxing, 46, said to be the mastermind of a multi-billion-dollar smuggling ring in Hong Kong and the Fujian province in China, was arrested at a casino at Niagara Falls, and taken to Vancouver
- NOVEMBER 22, 2000ChinaDEATH PENALTY
Peng Farong, the chairman of China Tianping Enterprises,...
Peng Farong, the chairman of China Tianping Enterprises, was executed with the approval of the Supreme Court, for colluding with Xuan Ying, the section chief of a savings unit of the Communications Bank Kunming Branch to use high interests to lure the Yu
- NOVEMBER 22, 2000ChinaDEATH PENALTY
Seven Chinese citizens were executed by a bullet after...
Seven Chinese citizens were executed by a bullet after the Intermediate People's Court in the western city of Urumqi, capital of Xinjiang Autonomous Region sentenced them publicly for crimes including robbery, arson, murder and rape
- NOVEMBER 20, 2000ChinaDEATH PENALTY
Hao Ruiduan, ex-director of Huaiyang County Grain Bureau...
Hao Ruiduan, ex-director of Huaiyang County Grain Bureau in central China's Henan Province, was executed for the killing of a deputy curator of Huaiyang County Museum, Li Genghai