Crime & Punishment.

China is in the grip of one of its periodic "Strike Hard" campaigns, the official slogan for an attempt to curb rapidly rising crime through the extra- enthusiastic use of capital punishment.

In the past month, over 500 executions have been announced by the official media, two or three times as many as usual. The authorities, however, do not make public every case, probably because to do so would mean excessively gloomy reading.


China is the existence of the death penalty. This is a very controversial system. The death penalty is the world's oldest penalty. Today, most countries have abolished the death penalty, but including China, Singapore, Japan and the United States remains in some countries, including the death penalty system. .


In British,if people have very important crime, the most severe punishment would be life imprisonment (life imprisonment). However, in China the court will be given the death penalty people.Earlier, the Chinese government announced that from January this year, will be sentenced to death by a significantly reduced 55 68 and 13 non-violent economic crimes will not be sentenced to death. This change once again the outside world attention to China's death penalty system.


Reference: BBC(2011)  Criminal Law in China from 13 kinds of abolition of death penalty crimes.
Available at: http://www.bbc.co.uk/zhongwen/simp/china/2011/02/110225_china_death_penalties.shtml.
(Access at :25th Feb 2011)