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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- JUNE 23, 2000ChinaDEATH PENALTY
The Chengdu Municipal Intermediate People's Court sentenced...
The Chengdu Municipal Intermediate People's Court sentenced Li Ming and ten others (unnamed) to death; Liu Gang and seven others were sentenced to death with a two-year reprieve
- JUNE 23, 2000ChinaDEATH PENALTY
The Guangzhou Railway Communications Intermediate People's...
The Guangzhou Railway Communications Intermediate People's Court carried out the instructions of the Guangdong Higher People's Court to execute drug criminals Li Qing, Zhang Kaida, and Huang Hongying
- JUNE 23, 2000ChinaDEATH PENALTY
Seven drug traffickers were executed in Beijing for...
Seven drug traffickers were executed in Beijing for being involved in five drug trafficking cases between 1997 and 1999
- JUNE 23, 2000ChinaDEATH PENALTY
The southwest Chinese province of Sichuan destroyed...
The southwest Chinese province of Sichuan destroyed 20 kilograms of "drugs" in the provincial capital Chengdu as part of a local narcotics crackdown
- JUNE 23, 2000ChinaDEATH PENALTY
Hu Zhongwang, 23, and Hu Luobing, of Hubei province,...
Hu Zhongwang, 23, and Hu Luobing, of Hubei province, were executed in Dongguan City in south China's Guangdong province
- JUNE 22, 2000ChinaDEATH PENALTY
An [unidentified] 36-year-old hacker was sentenced...
An [unidentified] 36-year-old hacker was sentenced to death in Hangzhou for embezzling over 1m yuan of public money from a bank account
- JUNE 22, 2000ChinaDEATH PENALTY
The Shanghai Railway Transport Intermediate Court sentenced...
The Shanghai Railway Transport Intermediate Court sentenced to death seven people with a period of reprieve or life imprisonment
- JUNE 22, 2000ChinaDEATH PENALTY
The Yibin Municipal Intermediate People's Court sentenced...
The Yibin Municipal Intermediate People's Court sentenced Ma Haijian, Zhu Qinglin, Zhu Qingmin, Qu Zhi'an and Tang Yongcai to death while Wang Shiyun and Xu Yanpu were sentenced to death with a two-year reprieve
- JUNE 22, 2000ChinaDEATH PENALTY
The Regional Higher People's Court announced that eight...
The Regional Higher People's Court announced that eight of the 13 defendants involved in a drug case were executed
- JUNE 21, 2000ChinaDEATH PENALTY
The Hubei Province Higher People's Court sentenced...
The Hubei Province Higher People's Court sentenced Zhou Mingrong to death with a two year reprieve
- JUNE 20, 2000ChinaDEATH PENALTY
Zulikar Memet, a man accused of helping separatist...
Zulikar Memet, a man accused of helping separatist ethnic Turkic Uighurs, was secretly executed after being held in isolation since his arrest in mid-1998
- JUNE 16, 2000ChinaDEATH PENALTY
The Guangzhou Municipal Intermediate People's Court...
The Guangzhou Municipal Intermediate People's Court sentenced Zhu Zexin, alias Zhang Xiong, to death with a two-year reprieve
- JUNE 16, 2000ChinaDEATH PENALTY
The Jinzhou Municipal Intermediate People's Court announced...
The Jinzhou Municipal Intermediate People's Court announced its judgment on the extraordinary case of mass murder in the coal pits in Yi County, Liaoning
- JUNE 16, 2000ChinaDEATH PENALTY
The Intermediate Court of the Ziyang Prefecture, Sichuan,...
The Intermediate Court of the Ziyang Prefecture, Sichuan, sentenced six backbone members of a criminal gang, including Zhang Yi, to death
- JUNE 16, 2000ChinaDEATH PENALTY
Hong Kong officials were seeking a guarantee from Beijing...
Hong Kong officials were seeking a guarantee from Beijing that mainlanders sent back to face trial under a rendition agreement would not be executed
- JUNE 15, 2000ChinaDEATH PENALTY
Five men, Xiaokelaiti Makmuti, Maimaiti Turxun, Kader...
Five men, Xiaokelaiti Makmuti, Maimaiti Turxun, Kader Asker Zunong, Abduriyimu Maimaitiyimin, Adbunur Abulimuti, all ethnic Turkic Uighurs native to the region, accused of terrorist activities in the far northern Chinese region of Xinjiang were executed i
- JUNE 14, 2000ChinaDEATH PENALTY
A Zhanjiang court sentenced to death Zhang Zhenlian,...
A Zhanjiang court sentenced to death Zhang Zhenlian, 40, for issuing 72 copies of false value added specialized tax invoices with a total value of 175m yuan involving taxes of 29
- JUNE 14, 2000ChinaDEATH PENALTY
Vice-Minister of Justice Duan Zhengkun said that since...
Vice-Minister of Justice Duan Zhengkun said that since China introduced its legal aid system in late 1996, 400,000 disadvantaged people, have benefited from the government-funded programmes
- JUNE 13, 2000ChinaDEATH PENALTY
Fang Yong, 35, who hid in Canada for nine years, was...
Fang Yong, 35, who hid in Canada for nine years, was given the death penalty by the Ningbo People's Intermediate Court for embezzling about 1
- JUNE 12, 2000ChinaDEATH PENALTY
The Jiangmen Intermediate People's Court sentenced...
The Jiangmen Intermediate People's Court sentenced Liao Zhi, 38, to death for manufacturing 730 kg of the narcotic "ice"
- JUNE 9, 2000ChinaDEATH PENALTY
The Beijing City No 2 Intermediate Court sentenced...
The Beijing City No 2 Intermediate Court sentenced Liu Chunyang, 29, a university graduate and model, to death, suspended for two years, and confiscated all her property, for running a brothel that earned tens of thousands of yuan a day
- JUNE 8, 2000ChinaDEATH PENALTY
The Jinhua Municipal Intermediate People's Court implemented...
The Jinhua Municipal Intermediate People's Court implemented the death sentence on He Shi and Qiu Xuanming for evading huge amounts of taxes using false value-added tax invoices
- JUNE 8, 2000ChinaDEATH PENALTY
Huang Faxiang, former director of the State Land Resources...
Huang Faxiang, former director of the State Land Resources of Fengdu County, Chongqing Municipality, was executed for grafting more than 15 million yuan (1
- JUNE 8, 2000ChinaDEATH PENALTY
The Dandong Municipal Intermediate People's Court in...
The Dandong Municipal Intermediate People's Court in Liaoning sentenced Song Jie and Huang He to death for armed murder in Dandong on December12, 1999
- JUNE 8, 2000ChinaDEATH PENALTY
Expanding the experimental use of lethal injections,...
Expanding the experimental use of lethal injections, authorities in Sichuan province used the method to execute eight people following an order by the Supreme People's Court
- JUNE 7, 2000ChinaDEATH PENALTY
The Taiyuan Municipal Intermediate People's Court passed...
The Taiyuan Municipal Intermediate People's Court passed a death sentence on convicted criminal Li Xiaolong 35
- JUNE 5, 2000ChinaDEATH PENALTY
Wu Biao, ex-director of the Jiangdong business department...
Wu Biao, ex-director of the Jiangdong business department under the Ningbo International Fiduciary Investment Company was sentenced to death for taking and offering bribes
- JUNE 2, 2000ChinaDEATH PENALTY
Shaowu City sentenced to death Liu Daming for obtaining...
Shaowu City sentenced to death Liu Daming for obtaining public funds through corruption
- JUNE 2, 2000ChinaDEATH PENALTY
The Jining Municipal Intermediate People's Court passed...
The Jining Municipal Intermediate People's Court passed death sentence on Li Jie with a two-year reprieve for intentional homicide
- JUNE 2, 2000ChinaDEATH PENALTY
22 people were executed in Beijing after the Supreme...
22 people were executed in Beijing after the Supreme People's Court upheld their sentences for murder, armed robbery, kidnapping and rape