Death Penalty In China

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The death penalty is one of the most ancient forms of punishment. Nowadays in China it is applied to a number of crimes and the vast majority of executions are carried out in cases of drug trafficking in big scales. The national Republic of China carries out the greatest number of death sentences in a year though other countries (such as Iran or Singapore) have higher rates per capita. This topic is very important as people have to know under which laws and conditions the death penalty in China is adjudicated. As well as a number of wrong executions made while people weren 't guilty. First, legislations and procedures of deadly punishments will be discussed. Furthermore, the importance of realizing and taking proper actions against it will …show more content…

Is it a way to control the crime rate? Is it a violation of human rights? Should it be accepted in the modern society development or abandoned ? Can the state justify and prove the necessity of such punitive measures to maintain the law enforcement? These questions has been answered by many scientists, legal representatives, public and political figures, writers and citizens.
If to approach the issue of the death penalty from the historical point, in every age, measured in decades, sometimes even in centuries debates around this type of punishment raised dramatically. It is one of the most ancient forms of punishment. The question of the death punishment was actively debated already in ancient Greece at the times of Peloponnesian War. Since then it took about 2500 years to inherit it to the modern legislation, and as a result it inherited all the problems, both legal and moral. (Lapshina O., …show more content…

Death sentences can be performed on a specially designated areas, in detention or in special mobile vans. In some areas of China, there are no specific rules and regulations of the death penalty. Special advance team chooses a place that will become a place of execution. In this case, generally, it has three penalty area perimeter: internal - 50 meters - for the execution itself; the radius of 200 meters from the center - for the People 's Armed Police cordoned off the area, and within a radius of 2 km from the penalty area - the line of the local police responsible. The public, as a rule, not allowed to see the