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To: Hawkmoon who wrote (2973)	3/7/2008 11:04:00 PM
From: RealMuLan	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 12464

Completely baseless assumption! but I am not surprised it is coming from a conservative NeoCon's mouth like you. Good bye!

To: Hawkmoon who wrote (2973)	3/8/2008 9:42:25 PM
From: hui zhou	Respond to of 12464

Hawk, as I know, only those who are direct involved in the killing of others and causing the victim's death, or very tiny percentage of corrupt persons who steal the huge amount of the money from the public may face the capital punishment. So the number of death cases should be in the range of 1-10% of total prisoners as I estimate. Even within the death penalty, more than half of them are converted to the life in prison or never carry out by Chinese law. According to the BBC report, last year, the death cases down 15% in China. Some of them are threw out by the Supreme Court which must approve all the death sentences by law.

To: Hawkmoon who wrote (2973)	3/10/2008 4:35:50 PM
From: hui zhou	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 12464

CHINA'S top judge, Xiao Yang, said since the Supreme People's Court revoked the power of reviewing death sentences from provincial courts on January 1 last year, capital punishment has been "strictly, cautiously and fairly" meted out to a small number of serious criminal offenders in the nation. "The transition work has been smooth, orderly and trials of death sentence cases normal," Xiao, president of the Supreme People's Court and chief justice, said in his work report to the annual parliamentary session. Xiao said the SPC has in the past year improved the procedure for second instance trials of death sentence cases and the procedure for the final review of death penalty with unified criteria applied. "The SPC has been working to ensure that capital punishment only applies to the very few number of felons who committed extremely serious, atrocious crimes that lead to grave social consequences," Xiao told the legislators. Xiao did not reveal how many people were executed last year. However, presiding judge of the SPC's First Criminal Law Court Huang Ermei said in a recent media interview that the supreme court rejected 15 percent of death sentences for various reasons including facts that needed clarifying, lack of evidence and procedure faults. Rozi Ismail, president of the higher people's court of the northwestern Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, told Xinhua that immediate executions after sentences in the region were reduced by half last year compared with 2006. The SPC taking back the power of reviewing death sentences is a major reform in China's criminal justice system, which provides procedural guarantees for preventing misjudged cases and safeguarding offenders' legal rights, said the Xinjiang judge. Legal professionals have observed that with the resumption of the SPC reviewing death sentences, local courts have already become more cautious in issuing death orders. The Chinese justice community agreed that the death sentence was necessary for the country to serve as a powerful deterrent.