China: The death penalty in China: breaking records, breaking rules

Index Number: ASA 17/038/1997
Date Published: 31 July 1997
Categories: Asia And The Pacific, China

In China last year, approximately 17 people were sentenced to death each day, every day of the year. This report examines the record versus the rhetoric in 1996. It examines the death penalty in practice during this year's "Strike Hard Anti-Crime Campaign" which highlights legal inadequacies and institutionalized abuses long discussed by domestic critics.