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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- FEBRUARY 1, 1999ChinaDEATH PENALTY
On February 1, 8 people were executed in Beijing for...
On February 1, 8 people were executed in Beijing for murder, rape and robbery
- FEBRUARY 1, 1999ChinaDEATH PENALTY
On the same day, a local court in south China handed...
On the same day, a local court in south China handed down sentences ranging from imprisonment to death to 14 Myanmarese pirates charged with raiding a Taiwanese cargo ship and setting its 19 crew members adrift in the Andaman Sea
- JANUARY 29, 1999ChinaDEATH PENALTY
On January 29, in a smuggling trial the Huaiyin Municipal...
On January 29, in a smuggling trial the Huaiyin Municipal Intermediate Court in Jiangsu Province gave Huang Ning a death sentence that was suspended for 2 years
- JANUARY 29, 1999ChinaDEATH PENALTY
The same day, 21 people were executed in southwestern...
The same day, 21 people were executed in southwestern Chongqing for murder and robbery after a public sentencing ceremony which drew a crowd of three hundred
- JANUARY 29, 1999ChinaDEATH PENALTY
On January 29, authorities in China's southern boomtown...
On January 29, authorities in China's southern boomtown of Shenzhen, a freewheeling special economic zone plagued by drugs, prostitution and organized crime, executed Zhang Guojin and 5 members of his criminal extortion gang shortly after sentencing them
- JANUARY 28, 1999ChinaDEATH PENALTY
On January 28, Yibulayin Simayi, 42, and Abudureyimu...
On January 28, Yibulayin Simayi, 42, and Abudureyimu Aisha, 29, were executed after a public sentencing by the Yili Prefecture Intermediate People's Court
- JANUARY 27, 1999ChinaDEATH PENALTY
On January 27, the Intermediate People's Court in Hangzhou...
On January 27, the Intermediate People's Court in Hangzhou city, capital of eastern Zhejiang province, condemned a woman, Wang Hongying, 34, to death for running a prostitution racket
- JANUARY 27, 1999ChinaDEATH PENALTY
On January 27, Rouzi Keyoumu, 45, was put to deathafter...
On January 27, Rouzi Keyoumu, 45, was put to deathafter the Yili Intermediate People's Court found him guilty of "violent terrorist activities
- JANUARY 25, 1999ChinaDEATH PENALTY
On January 25, the No
On January 25, the No
- JANUARY 20, 1999ChinaDEATH PENALTY
On January 20, the Shantou Intermediate People's Court...
On January 20, the Shantou Intermediate People's Court handed down the death sentence to Lin Jingchuan, skipper of the Yongzaihong No
- JANUARY 19, 1999ChinaDEATH PENALTY
On January 19, 6 people were executed in Beijing for...
On January 19, 6 people were executed in Beijing for murder and robbery
- JANUARY 15, 1999ChinaDEATH PENALTY
On January 15, the Higher People's Court of southwest...
On January 15, the Higher People's Court of southwest China's Yunnan Province established a special court to deal with the growing number of drug-related cases
- JANUARY 15, 1999ChinaDEATH PENALTY
On January 15, Gao Yunliao, a farmer from Henan's Nanzhao...
On January 15, Gao Yunliao, a farmer from Henan's Nanzhao county, was given the death sentence and was executed in central China's Henan Province for attempting to steal a statue of the Buddha dating to the Tang Dynasty
- JANUARY 14, 1999ChinaDEATH PENALTY
On 14 January, Vice President of the Supreme People's...
On 14 January, Vice President of the Supreme People's Court Liu Jiachen awarded medals of honor to the Guangdong High Court and the Guangzhou Intermediate Court, for sentencing Hong Kong gangster Cheung Tze-keung to death in December 1998, a case that dre
- JANUARY 13, 1999ChinaDEATH PENALTY
On January 13, Li Yubao, an unemployed worker from...
On January 13, Li Yubao, an unemployed worker from Anhui Province, was executed in Shanghai after being convicted of killing on February 12, 1998 a Shanghai passenger with a knife during a quarrel at Huainan Railway Station
- JANUARY 9, 1999ChinaDEATH PENALTY
On January 9, Sun Maobeng, former governor of the Ningbo...
On January 9, Sun Maobeng, former governor of the Ningbo city branch of the People's Bank of China, was handed a suspended death sentence for bribery (more than $80,000) by a court in southeastern Zhejiang Province
- JANUARY 1, 1999ChinaDEATH PENALTY
In January, the Nanyang Intermediate People's Court...
In January, the Nanyang Intermediate People's Court sentenced Guo Haijun to death for stealing 31 cultural relics from Nanyang City Museum in 1997
- JANUARY 1, 1999ChinaDEATH PENALTY
In January, in a drive to close huge loopholes in the...
In January, in a drive to close huge loopholes in the country's tax system, Vice Premier Li Lanqing was quoted as saying that China would enforce stiff penalties for tax evasion, including the death penalty
- JANUARY 1, 1999ChinaDEATH PENALTY
At the end of January, in the northern city of Taiyuan,...
At the end of January, in the northern city of Taiyuan, 8 convicts were executed by gunshot for drug smuggling, murder and robbery
- JANUARY 1, 1999ChinaDEATH PENALTY
In the summer of 1998 Beijing launched a nationwide...
In the summer of 1998 Beijing launched a nationwide anti-smuggling campaign, first ordering the army, law enforcement agencies and bureaucracy to turn their multi-billion dollar businesses over to central government control
- JANUARY 1, 1999ChinaDEATH PENALTY
In January, the Shanghai Railway Court executed a person...
In January, the Shanghai Railway Court executed a person for drug-trafficking
- JANUARY 1, 1999ChinaDEATH PENALTY
A revised Criminal Procedure Law came into force in...
A revised Criminal Procedure Law came into force in January 1997
- JANUARY 1, 1999ChinaDEATH PENALTY
In January, in southeastern Fujian province, 5 people...
In January, in southeastern Fujian province, 5 people were executed by firing squad for smuggling, burglary and stealing cars
- JANUARY 1, 1999ChinaDEATH PENALTY
In January, in the northwestern region of Xinjiang,...
In January, in the northwestern region of Xinjiang, a man was executed for stabbing a Communist Party cadre to death and wounding the official's wife, daughter and mother-in-law
- JANUARY 1, 1999ChinaDEATH PENALTY
It seems that China has stepped up sentencings and...
It seems that China has stepped up sentencings and executions in the run-up to sensitive anniversaries or holidays to ensure social order