1st Edition

China’s Death Penalty History, Law and Contemporary Practices

By Hong Lu, Terance D. Miethe Copyright 2007
272 Pages
by Routledge

192 Pages
by Routledge

192 Pages
by Routledge

By all accounts, China is the world leader in the number of legal executions. Its long historical use of capital punishment and its major political and economic changes over time are social facts that make China an ideal context for a case study of the death penalty in law and practice. This book examines the death penalty within the changing socio-political context of China. The... Read more

1. Introduction  2. Death Penalty as Law and Punishment  3. Historical and Legal Development of the Death Penalty  4. Contemporary Substantive and Procedural Criminal Law on the Death Penalty  5. The Application of the Death Penalty  6. The Process of Death Sentence and Execution  7. Reforms and the Future Prospects of the Death Penalty.  Appendix: Judicial Judgment of Selected Capital Cases

Biography

Hong Lu is Associate Professor of Criminal Justice at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. She has authored a book Punishment: A Comparative Historical Perspective (with Terance D. Miethe) and numerous articles in the areas of criminology and comparative legal studies appearing in journals including Law & Society Review and British Journal of Criminology.

Terance D. Miethe is a Professor of Criminal Justice at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. He is the author of 8 books and over 50 research articles in the areas of criminology and sociology. His most recent books include Rethinking Homicide: Exploring the Structure and Process Underlying Deadly Situations (with Wendy Regoeczi), Punishment: A Comparative Historical Perspective (with Hong Lu), and Fight Time: The Rules and Routines in Interpersonal Violence (with Gini Deibert).