China to reduce death penalty use
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China's top court orders judges to be more sparing  with the death penalty, a key source of international worry.
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China is to introduce steps to punish famous and wealthy violators of its one-child policy, senior officials say.
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The use of the death penalty dropped this year for the fifth year in a row, as questions grow about the guilt of the condemned and more states take a hard look at their use of executions, says a report by a group critical of the punishment.
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The Chinese legislature has announced plans to reform the reeducation-through-labor system used to punish minor criminal offenders.
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China on Wednesday hailed the swift execution of the nation's former drug safety chief as a warning to other corrupt officials while detailing a web of graft that thrived for years without punishment.
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A total of 134 countries have  given up capital punishment, 10 more than had done so at the  start of 2003, a campaigner against capital punishment reported  on Friday.
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A commission examining last year's botched lethal injection execution said Sunday it will recommend changes this week aimed at reducing errors in Florida's death row procedures.
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The move is part of a government crackdown on graft by ChinaÂs president that has focused on prominent political opponents.
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China prosecuted nearly one million people last year and sent more people to jail than in 2005, officials said on Tuesday, and they vowed to keep up the fight on crime while promising to limit executions.
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China announced a nationwide crackdown on enslavement and child labor on Wednesday, in the highest admission yet of grim exploitation in rural brick kilns where official complicity has been charged.
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As learned from the Ministry of Commerce China will honor all of its commitments on key sectors from and after 2005. China will reduce its tariff to 10.1 percent on average in 2005 in line with its promise to the World Trade Organization.
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The government is planning to create tougher punishments for those who kill people while driving.
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China's human rights record has   deteriorated in the run-up to the 2008 Olympics, with thousands   of people being executed after unfair trials, Amnesty   International said on Thursday.
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China is to expand the use of lethal injections to replace executions by shooting, a senior official says.
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Stop executions for a while and perhaps they can be stopped forever. That calculation has been part of the strategy of capital punishment opponents for decades.
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SHANGHAI, China  - Chinese makers and distributors of pornographic materials sent through the Internet, cellphones and other communication devices will face penalties as severe as life imprisonment under new rules that take effect Monday.
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China plans to release a prominent imprisoned dissident this week, cutting short his sentence in an apparent "conciliatory gesture" by the government of President Hu Jintao, a human rights group said Tuesday.