Home -> Law Blog Directory -> Criminal Law Blogs -> Sentencing Law and Policy

Criminal Law

: Sentencing Law and Policy

Interesting capital news from China

By Douglas A. Berman

Both Reuters and BBC News report on interesting death penalty developments from China.  Here is the start of the Reuters report:China's top court has rejected 15 percent of death sentences handed by lower courts, citing poor evidence and procedural errors under new rules, but a top judge said the death penalty will remain in place for a long time. China keeps secret the number of prisoners it executes, but international human rights observers have no doubt it judicially kills more than any other country -- with estimates of executions somewhere between 1,000 and 12,000 a year in recent times.

Full post as published by Sentencing Law and Policy on March 09, 2008 (boomark / email).