Abstract
This chapter reviews the reforms in China's death penalty system since the amendment of the Criminal Law of the People's Republic of China in 1997. It introduces the general principle to be followed in judicial practice of ‘killing less and cautious executions’, and analyses two major changes that have resulted from the adoption of this policy. First, on 1 January 2007, the Supreme People's Court took back from the Provincial High Courts the power of reviewing and approving, or not approving, death sentences with immediate execution imposed by the People's Intermediate Courts and upheld by the Provincial High Courts. Secondly, on 25 February 2011, the Chinese legislature adopted ‘Amendment VIII to the Criminal Law’ which abolished the death penalty for thirteen non-violent crimes.
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