最终稿The death penalty in China

The death penalty in China

Part 1 The current situation of death penalty in China

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Public Opinion: Capital punishment has widespread support in China, especially

for violent crimes, and no group in government or civil society vocally advocates

for its abolition. Polling conducted in 2007 in Beijing, Hunan and Guangdong

found a more moderate 58 percent in favor of the death penalty, and further found

that a majority (63.8 percent) believed that the government should release

execution statistics to the public.

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Death penalty in the People's Republic of China is usually administered to

offenders of serious and violent crimes, such as aggravated murder, but China

retains in law a number of nonviolent capital offenses such as drug trafficking. By

the confirmed numbers, the rate of executions in China is higher than the United

States and Pakistan, though Iran executes more prisoners per Dui Hua

Foundation declares that the true figures were higher; they estimate that China

executed between 5,000 and 6,000 people in 2007, down from 10,000 in 2005.

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The People's Republic of China executes the highest number of people annually,

though other countries (such as Iran or Singapore) have higher per capita

execution rates. The number of executions in China more than any other country

in the world, even more than the number of death penalty sum of all other

countries. But the execution rate of China is lower than other counties.

Country

：

The number of execution / population (million

）

= the execution rate

Iran

：

390/75=5.20

Iraq

：

110/31=3.54

Saudi Arabia

：

80/26=1.25

Yemen

：

30/24=1.25

Chian

：

1000/1330=0 .75

Vietnam

：

6-8/8 6=0.70-0.93

Syria

：

5-7/22=0.23-0.32

United States

：

5/310=0.16

Sudan

：

6-8/39=0.15-0.20

Japan

：

5-7/130=0.04-0. 05

Executions by State in 2009

State

Texas

Alabama

Oklahoma

Tennessee

Florida

Virginia

South Carolina

Georgia

Missouri

Ohio

Indiana

The number of execution

24

6

2

2

2

3

2

3

1

5

1

Population ( million )

24,782,302

4,708,708

3,687,050

6,296,254

18,537,969

7,882,590

4,561,242

9,829,211

5,987,580

11,542,645

6.423.113

The execution rate

0.97

1.27

0.54

0.32

0.11

0.38

0.44

0.31

0.17

0.43

0.16

Part 2 The applicability of death penalty

In 1979, the Chinese criminal law was approved by the national people’s congress. In

this

law,

28

crimes

regulated

in

15

articles

were

death

eligible,

science

the

major

emphasis

of

the

government

and

society

was

still

upon

class

struggle

and

the

stabilization of socialism, 15 capital crimes dealt with counter-revolutionary offense.

After

the

Chinese

opening

policy,

with

the

development

of

economic,

China

has