China high court to investigate ways to reduce death penalty crimes

China high court to investigate ways to reduce death penalty crimes

By Peter Snyder on Nov 24, 2014 01:39 pm
[JURIST] China's highest court, the Supreme People's Court [official website, in Chinese] will investigate ways of reducing the number of crimes punishable by death according to remarks by Hu Yunteng, a senior researcher at the Supreme People's Court, published Monday. Hu told [Reuters report] a group of academics Saturday that the government must reduce the use of the death penalty and use the death penalty with care to prevent the execution of innocent individuals, according to the Supreme People's Court...   +read more