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 1, 2000ChinaDEATH PENALTY
June 23-26, 2000: the Higher People's Court pronounced...
June 23-26, 2000: the Higher People's Court pronounced the execution of seven principal drug traffickers including Zhang Qingai, Mo Daiqin, Jiang Xixin, Cheng Hua, Cheng Yun, Liu Guifen and Sun Gaolin
- JUNE 1, 2000ChinaDEATH PENALTY
The Sichuan Provincial Higher People's Court approved...
The Sichuan Provincial Higher People's Court approved the death sentence on Gui Weishu for abducting and murdering Qu Chaoliang, a judge of the Xuanhan County Court
- MAY 30, 2000ChinaDEATH PENALTY
Wang Zhiliang, the principal culprit of an extraordinary...
Wang Zhiliang, the principal culprit of an extraordinary tax evasion case causing economic losses of over 20m yuan to the State, was executed in Huludao, Liaoning
- MAY 30, 2000ChinaDEATH PENALTY
A corrupt official, Yang Shuhua, was executed in Hebei...
A corrupt official, Yang Shuhua, was executed in Hebei Renqiu City
- MAY 30, 2000ChinaDEATH PENALTY
Five men convicted on various counts of kidnapping,...
Five men convicted on various counts of kidnapping, raping and robbing children were executed, in various places across China, on the eve of Children's Day
- MAY 27, 2000ChinaDEATH PENALTY
Shen Weibiao, the 32-year-old manager of a Bank of...
Shen Weibiao, the 32-year-old manager of a Bank of China branch in the city of Shaoguan, was executed for the white-collar crime of diverting funds (1
- MAY 26, 2000ChinaDEATH PENALTY
The Lanzhou Intermediate People's Court sentenced Xu...
The Lanzhou Intermediate People's Court sentenced Xu Guangming, the manager of the Liancheng Aluminum Lianhai Integrated Development Company, to death
- MAY 26, 2000ChinaDEATH PENALTY
Yu Fengying, a former bus station worker, Wang Xiuying,...
Yu Fengying, a former bus station worker, Wang Xiuying, an unemployed woman, and Hu Jiama, a farmer, were sentenced to death for tricking 57 women between 1993 and 1998 with promises of work or travel to go to other parts of the mainland, where they were
- MAY 23, 2000ChinaDEATH PENALTY
Li Changhe, former secretary of the political and law...
Li Changhe, former secretary of the political and law committee of the city of Pingdingshan, central China, and assassins Liu Guoxing, and Yi Zhihong were given the death sentence for his involvement in a hired-killing and bribery scheme by the Intermedia
- MAY 19, 2000ChinaDEATH PENALTY
Following a rally held by the Yinchuan Intermediate...
Following a rally held by the Yinchuan Intermediate People's Court to pronounce their sentences, five convicted criminals were taken to the execution ground and executed by a firing squad
- MAY 10, 2000ChinaDEATH PENALTY
China's Supreme People's Court announced that Lin Laibao...
China's Supreme People's Court announced that Lin Laibao from Lufeng city in Guangdong Province; Bing Guigang and Xie Zhongying from Huishui County in Guizhou Province; and Liang Kunmin from Suiyang County in Guizhou Province, were guilty of trafficking i
- MAY 1, 2000ChinaDEATH PENALTY
In May four convicted murderers, who conspired to kill...
In May four convicted murderers, who conspired to kill a prosecutor in retaliation for putting them in prison, were given death sentences by the Intermediate People's Court of Haikou, capital of south China's Hainan Province
- APRIL 29, 2000ChinaDEATH PENALTY
China forcibly returned a group of 60 refugees to North...
China forcibly returned a group of 60 refugees to North Korea after they protested and rioted on April 16 over bad treatment in a northeastern Chinese detention centre
- APRIL 28, 2000ChinaDEATH PENALTY
China forcibly returned a group of 60 refugees to North...
China forcibly returned a group of 60 refugees to North Korea after they protested and rioted on April 16 over bad treatment in a northeastern Chinese detention center
- APRIL 27, 2000ChinaDEATH PENALTY
Foreign Ministry spokesman Sun Yuxi said in Beijing...
Foreign Ministry spokesman Sun Yuxi said in Beijing that China retained the death penalty but controls it strictly and uses it cautiously
- APRIL 26, 2000ChinaDEATH PENALTY
China voted against the resolution on the death penalty...
China voted against the resolution on the death penalty approved by the UN Commission on Human Rights on April 26 (no
- APRIL 26, 2000ChinaDEATH PENALTY
China voted against the resolution on the death penalty...
China voted against the resolution on the death penalty approved by the UN Commission on Human Rights (no
- APRIL 26, 2000ChinaDEATH PENALTY
Ge Lanzhen and Xu Ruzhen, leaders of a criminal gang...
Ge Lanzhen and Xu Ruzhen, leaders of a criminal gang of 16 people, all of them farmers from Guangnan County, Yunnan Province, were executed in Wenshan after being sentenced to death in November 1999
- APRIL 24, 2000ChinaDEATH PENALTY
Liu Yong-zhen from Taiwan and Chen Linsong from Fujian...
Liu Yong-zhen from Taiwan and Chen Linsong from Fujian were given death sentences in trials of first instance in Zhangzhou city, in east China's Fujian Province
- APRIL 23, 2000ChinaDEATH PENALTY
Li Chenglong, former vice-mayor of Guigang in the Guangxi...
Li Chenglong, former vice-mayor of Guigang in the Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, was executed following his conviction and sentencing for accepting bribes of 3
- APRIL 21, 2000ChinaDEATH PENALTY
Cao Yufei, Gong Congying and Gao Zhenyu, members of...
Cao Yufei, Gong Congying and Gao Zhenyu, members of a major criminal gang who illegally raised over 500m yuan were sentenced to death in Beijing
- APRIL 19, 2000ChinaDEATH PENALTY
The Portuguese representative to the UN Human Rights...
The Portuguese representative to the UN Human Rights Commission, Alvaro de Mendonca e Moura, regretted on behalf of the EU and the applicant countries, the Chinese attitude that blocked the voting of a resolution on Human Rights in China through a procedu
- APRIL 19, 2000ChinaDEATH PENALTY
Five officials and businessmen from the Chinese capital...
Five officials and businessmen from the Chinese capital were sentenced to death for embezzling public funds
- APRIL 17, 2000ChinaDEATH PENALTY
Jin Xiangwu, the owner of a video-game arcade who murdered...
Jin Xiangwu, the owner of a video-game arcade who murdered three primary school pupils over a 2
- APRIL 14, 2000ChinaDEATH PENALTY
Prison governor Jiayong Renqing of Lhasa jail in Tibet...
Prison governor Jiayong Renqing of Lhasa jail in Tibet said that the number of prisoners in Tibet jails represents 0
- APRIL 14, 2000ChinaDEATH PENALTY
The Municipal Higher Court rejected an appeal from...
The Municipal Higher Court rejected an appeal from Hu Weiguo, 45, who received a two-year suspended death sentence on February 3 for setting fire to his house while his 14-year-old daughter was asleep inside the building
- APRIL 14, 2000ChinaDEATH PENALTY
Liang Kunmin, a 27-year-old peasant from southwest...
Liang Kunmin, a 27-year-old peasant from southwest China's Guizhou Province, was given the death sentence by a local court in east China's Jiangsu Province for the abduction and rape of five women
- APRIL 11, 2000ChinaDEATH PENALTY
He Xinquan and Gao Xinglong from Shanghai were given...
He Xinquan and Gao Xinglong from Shanghai were given death sentences for torturing a Songjiang District taxi driver to death and burying the corpse in a roadside ditch in East China's Anhui Province
- APRIL 9, 2000ChinaDEATH PENALTY
Chen Dequ was executed in Fuzhou
Chen Dequ was executed in Fuzhou
- APRIL 7, 2000ChinaDEATH PENALTY
Kong Jia, an unemployed ex-convict was executed in...
Kong Jia, an unemployed ex-convict was executed in Beijing for bludgeoning his parents to death with an iron bar