China Bans Court Evidence Gained Through Torture

China issued the legal guidelines after a number of cases involving false confessions, most recently one involving a farmer who was wrongly imprisoned for 10 years.

China Executes Briton Despite Appeals

After Akmal Shaikh’s drug smuggling conviction, British officials pressed China to consider his psychiatric history.

Six More Sentenced to Death Over Riots in China

While previous sentences had only been handed to men with ethnic Uighur names, one of the men convicted Thursday had an ethnic Han name.

British Try to Halt Execution of Briton in China

Officials are trying to save the life of a British man sentenced to death for drug smuggling by a Chinese court despite apparent signs of mental illness.

China Warns of Executions as Riots Ebb

President Hu Jintao cut short his trip to the G-8 summit as the party boss in China’s Xinjiang region issued a threat after three days of ethnic violence.

Death Sentences in Chinese Milk Case

A Chinese court sentenced two men to death and a top dairy company executive to life in prison for selling tainted milk products.

Two men sentenced to death over tainted milk scandal

Two men connected with the tainted milk scandal were sentenced to death today while Tian Wenhua, former board chairwoman of the Sanlu Group at the heart of the scandal, was sentenced to life in prison.

2 Uighurs Sentenced to Death for West China Police Assault

A court in the western region of Xinjiang has sentenced two men to death for an attack in August that killed 17 paramilitary officers, according to a state news report.

Chinese Execute 2 Convicted of Spying

Despite pleas for clemency from the Bush administration and European officials, a biomedical researcher convicted of espionage by a Chinese court was executed Friday.

Effort Made to Save Man China Convicted of Spying

His family and the U.S. try to save a Chinese man, Wo Weihan, from execution for spying.

Police Officers’ Killer, Hero to Some Chinese, Is Executed

A 28-year-old man convicted of killing six police officers was executed by lethal injection on Wednesday morning, according to state media.

Official gets death for raping virgins

A former political adviser in Henan Province was sentenced to death for committing six crimes, including raping more than 20 virgin girls in less than two years.

A supreme call sees decrease in executions

The number of suspended death sentences handed down this year in China has surpassed that of immediate executions for the first time.

Doctors Agree Not to Take Organs From Prisoners

Chinese medical officials agreed not to transplant organs from prisoners, except for members of their immediate families.

Capital punishment decreases nationwide

The country is expected to register its lowest number of death penalties in more than a decade, largely due to measures that have stripped all but the top courts of their powers to approve capital punishment for serious crimes.

Former law maker gets death for mistress murder

A former Chinese law maker in eastern China was sentenced to death today for taking bribes and asking others to kill his mistress.

China "prudent" in using death penalty to punish economic crimes, says official

China is very prudent in its use of the death penalty to punish economic criminals, the Communist Party of China's disciplinary watchdog said on Thursday.

NY Times Editorial: Killing the Regulator

What China needs is an effective and transparent regulatory system and a clear understanding that its export boom will suffer if it continues to sell tainted food, toys, and toothpaste.

People's Daily Editorial: Only death penalty can atone his towering crime!

"The death penalty handed to Zheng Xiaoyu has fully proven the will and desire of the people across China, eloquently showed the spirit of the fairness and justice of legal sanction as well as the firm resolve of the Party and the state."

A Chinese Reformer Betrays His Cause, and Pays

The Chinese regulator who was executed Tuesday was corrupted by the system he sought to change.