China's Death Penalty: History, Law and Contemporary Practices

摘要

This is a timely book on death penalty in China. The Supreme People's Court in China has started to reform the approval procedure for death penalty (DP) cases, and the authors, like many other observers, hoped that the procedural reform will have a substantial impact on the reduction of DP cases. Some scholars and judges in China are confident that the procedural reform could reduce, and indeed may have already reduced, the number of DP cases in China substantially. This book contributes to this debate.