Death penalty for China official
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China sentences the former head of its Food and Drug Administration to death for corruption, state media says.
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China sees a 10% drop in death sentences since new legislation was brought in, state media says.
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Zhao Ziyang, former Chinese Communist  Party chief who was purged for sympathizing with the Tiananmen  pro-democracy protests, lay in a deep coma on Sunday and could  die at any time, a source close to his family said.
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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 has secretly executed a man who protested against the controversial Pubugou dam project, his lawyer says.
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Twenty-four people have been held over the killing of a man in central China that has reignited calls to abolish the agency whose staff were allegedly involved in the death, state press reported Wednesday.
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A death sentence handed to a Tibetan  monk over a spate of bombings could be commuted to life in  jail, the official Xinhua news agency said on Thursday.
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SHANGHAI, China  -- Chinese makers and distributors of pornographic materials sent through the Internet, mobile phones and other communication devices will face penalties as severe as life in prison under new rules that take effect Monday.    The regulations were issued Sunday in a legal interpretation by the Supreme People's Court and Supreme People's Procuratorate, or top prosecutors office, the official Xinhua News Agency reported...
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Former Indian cabinet minister Shibu Soren is given a life term for murdering his aide.
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To many Americans, the execution last week of Chinaâs former top food and drug official may seem extreme, but severe sanctions for bribe-taking have a long and bloody history.
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BEIJING - A Chinese business executive was sentenced to death for swindling $385 million from investors in a bogus ant-breeding scheme, a court official said Thursday.
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China will expand the use of lethal injections to replace execution by gunshot, state media said on Thursday of a country which kills more convicts than anywhere else.
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The use of lethal injection will be expanded in China to replace execution by shooting, a senior legal official said in an interview with a government-owned Chinese newspaper.
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Two death sentences for corrupt senior officials were announced in China on Tuesday as President Hu Jintao lamented the difficulty of fighting graft, state press said.
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A Chinese company chairman is sentenced to death for running a scam involving giant ants.
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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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China has awarded exactly 66,593.36 yuan (4,709 pounds) compensation to a woman who was wrongfully convicted of murdering her ex-husband and jailed for over two years, local media reported on Wednesday.