Capital punishment in China, the Glossary

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1. 95 relations: American Journal of Comparative Law, Amnesty International, Arson, Asian Survey, Beijing, Black market, Bribery, Capital punishment, Capital punishment in Hong Kong, Capital punishment in Macau, Capital punishment in Taiwan, Capital punishment in the United States, China, China Daily, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, Chinese law, Chinese philosophy, Coalition to Investigate the Persecution of Falun Gong, Collective responsibility, Confucianism, Confucius, Contact (law), Crime in China, Death sentence with reprieve, Duke Wen of Qin, Embezzlement, European Union, Execution by firing squad, Execution by shooting, Execution van, Faculty of Law, University of Oxford, Falun Gong, Filial piety, Five Punishments, Foot whipping, Giant panda, Government of China, Harmonious Society, High people's court, Hong Kong, Hu Jintao, Hubei, Hunan, Illegal drug trade, Illegal drug trade in China, Intermediate people's court, Judicial police, King Wu of Zhou, Laogai Research Foundation, Legalism (Chinese philosophy), ... Expand index (45 more) »

American Journal of Comparative Law

The American Journal of Comparative Law (AJCL) is a quarterly, peer-reviewed law journal devoted to comparative and transnational legal studies—including, among other subjects, comparative law, comparative and transnational legal history and theory, private international law and conflict of laws, and the study of legal systems, cultures, and traditions other than those of the United States.

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Amnesty International

Amnesty International (also referred to as Amnesty or AI) is an international non-governmental organization focused on human rights, with its headquarters in the United Kingdom.

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Arson

Arson is the act of willfully and deliberately setting fire to or charring property.

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Asian Survey

Asian Survey: A Bimonthly Review of Contemporary Asian Affairs is a bimonthly academic journal of Asian studies published by the University of California Press on behalf of the Institute of East Asian Studies at the University of California, Berkeley.

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Beijing

Beijing, previously romanized as Peking, is the capital of China.

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Black market

A black market, underground economy, or shadow economy is a clandestine market or series of transactions that has some aspect of illegality or is not compliant with an institutional set of rules.

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Bribery

Bribery is the offering, giving, receiving, or soliciting of any item of value to influence the actions of an official, or other person, in charge of a public or legal duty and to incline the individual to act contrary to their duty and the known rules of honesty and integrity.

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Capital punishment

Capital punishment, also known as the death penalty and formerly called judicial homicide, is the state-sanctioned killing of a person as punishment for actual or supposed misconduct.

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Capital punishment in Hong Kong

Capital punishment in Hong Kong was formally abolished on 23 April 1993 by virtue of the Crimes (Amendment) Ordinance 1993.

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Capital punishment in Macau

Capital punishment in Macau was formally abolished in 1976 and reiterated in the Penal Code of Macau in 1995.

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Capital punishment in Taiwan

Capital punishment is a legal penalty in Taiwan.

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Capital punishment in the United States

In the United States, capital punishment (killing a person as punishment for allegedly committing a crime) is a legal penalty throughout the country at the federal level, in 27 states, and in American Samoa.

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China

China, officially the People's Republic of China (PRC), is a country in East Asia.

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China Daily

China Daily is an English-language daily newspaper owned by the Publicity Department of the Chinese Communist Party.

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The Chinese Academy of Social Sciences (CASS) is a Chinese state research institute and think tank.

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Chinese law

Chinese law is one of the oldest legal traditions in the world.

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Chinese philosophy

Chinese philosophy originates in the Spring and Autumn period and Warring States period, during a period known as the "Hundred Schools of Thought", which was characterized by significant intellectual and cultural developments.

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Coalition to Investigate the Persecution of Falun Gong

The Coalition to Investigate the Persecution of Falun Gong in China (CIPFG) is an international non-governmental organization established in the United States on April 5, 2006, by the Falun Dafa Association.

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Collective responsibility

Collective responsibility or collective guilt, is the responsibility of organizations, groups and societies.

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Confucianism

Confucianism, also known as Ruism or Ru classicism, is a system of thought and behavior originating in ancient China, and is variously described as a tradition, philosophy (humanistic or rationalistic), religion, theory of government, or way of life.

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Confucius

Confucius (孔子; pinyin), born Kong Qiu (孔丘), was a Chinese philosopher of the Spring and Autumn period who is traditionally considered the paragon of Chinese sages, as well as the first teacher in China to advocate for mass education.

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In family law, contact, visitation and access are synonym terms that denotes the time that a child spends with the noncustodial parent, according to an agreed or court specified parenting schedule.

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Crime in China

Despite a reportedly low crime rate in China, crime still occurs in various forms.

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Death sentence with reprieve

Death with reprieve (abbr) is a criminal punishment found in chapter 5 (death penalty), sections 48, 50 and 51 of the criminal law of the People's Republic of China.

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Duke Wen of Qin

Duke Wen of Qin (died 716 BC), personal name unknown, was a duke of the Qin state.

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Embezzlement

Embezzlement (from Anglo-Norman, from Old French besillier ("to torment, etc."), of unknown origin) is a term commonly used for a type of financial crime, usually involving theft of money from a business or employer.

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European Union

The European Union (EU) is a supranational political and economic union of member states that are located primarily in Europe.

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Execution by firing squad

Execution by firing squad, in the past sometimes called fusillading (from the French fusil, rifle), is a method of capital punishment, particularly common in the military and in times of war.

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Execution by shooting

Execution by shooting is a method of capital punishment in which a person is shot to death by one or more firearms.

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Execution van

An execution van is a vehicle in which prisoners are executed through lethal injection.

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Faculty of Law, University of Oxford

The University of Oxford Faculty of Law is the law school of the University of Oxford.

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Falun Gong

Falun Gong or Falun Dafa is a new religious movement.

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Filial piety

Filial piety is the virtue of exhibiting love and respect for one's parents, elders, and ancestors, particularly within the context of Confucian, Chinese Buddhist, and Daoist ethics.

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Five Punishments

The Five Punishments was the collective name for a series of physical penalties meted out by the legal system of pre-modern dynastic China.

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Foot whipping, falanga/falaka or bastinado is a method of inflicting pain and humiliation by administering a beating on the soles of a person's bare feet.

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Giant panda

The giant panda (Ailuropoda melanoleuca), also known as the panda bear or simply panda, is a bear species endemic to China.

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Government of China

The government of the People's Republic of China is based on a system of people's congress within the parameters of a unitary communist state, in which the ruling Chinese Communist Party (CCP) enacts its policies through people's congresses.

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Harmonious Society

The Harmonious Society (also known as Socialist Harmonious Society) is a socioeconomic concept in China that is recognized as a response to the increasing alleged social injustice and inequality emerging in mainland Chinese society as a result of unchecked economic growth, which has led to social conflict.

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High people's court

A high people's court or higher people's court (高级人民法院) is the highest local court in the People's Republic of China.

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Hong Kong

Hong Kong is a special administrative region of the People's Republic of China.

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Hu Jintao

Hu Jintao (born 21 December 1942) is a Chinese retired politician who served as the general secretary of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) from 2002 to 2012, the president of China from 2003 to 2013, and chairman of the Central Military Commission (CMC) from 2004 to 2012.

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Hubei

Hubei is an inland province of China, and is part of the Central China region.

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Hunan

Hunan is an inland province of China.

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Illegal drug trade

The illegal drug trade, drug trafficking, or narcotrafficking is a global black market dedicated to the cultivation, manufacture, distribution and sale of prohibited drugs.

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Illegal drug trade in China

The illegal drug trade in China is influenced by factors such as history, location, size, population, and current economic conditions.

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An intermediate people's court is the second lowest local people's court in China.

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Judicial police

The judicial police, judiciary police, or justice police are (depending on both country and legal system) either a branch, separate police agency or type of duty performed by law enforcement structures in a country.

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King Wu of Zhou

King Wu of Zhou (died), personal name Ji Fa, was the founding king of the Chinese Zhou dynasty.

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Laogai Research Foundation

The Laogai Research Foundation is a human rights NGO located in Washington, D.C, United States.

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Legalism (Chinese philosophy)

Fajia, or the School of fa (laws,methods), often translated as Legalism, is a school of mainly Warring States period classical Chinese philosophy, whose ideas contributed greatly to the formation of the bureaucratic Chinese empire, and Daoism as prominent in the early Han.

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Lethal injection

Lethal injection is the practice of injecting one or more drugs into a person (typically a barbiturate, paralytic, and potassium solution) for the express purpose of causing rapid death.

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Life imprisonment

Life imprisonment is any sentence of imprisonment for a crime under which convicted criminals are to remain in prison for the rest of their natural lives (or until pardoned, paroled, or commuted to a fixed term).

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Max Planck Society

The Max Planck Society for the Advancement of Science (Max-Planck-Gesellschaft zur Förderung der Wissenschaften e. V.; abbreviated MPG) is a formally independent non-governmental and non-profit association of German research institutes.

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Ming dynasty

The Ming dynasty, officially the Great Ming, was an imperial dynasty of China, ruling from 1368 to 1644 following the collapse of the Mongol-led Yuan dynasty.

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Murder

Murder is the unlawful killing of another human without justification or valid excuse committed with the necessary intention as defined by the law in a specific jurisdiction.

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National Medical Products Administration

The National Medical Products Administration (NMPA) is a national bureau responsible for drug supervision under the State Council of China and is managed by the State Administration for Market Regulation.

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National People's Congress

The National People's Congress (NPC) is the highest organ of state power of the People's Republic of China.

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National treasure

The idea of national treasure, like national epics and national anthems, is part of the language of romantic nationalism, which arose in the late 18th century and 19th centuries.

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NPR

National Public Radio (NPR, stylized as npr) is an American public broadcasting organization headquartered in Washington, D.C., with its NPR West headquarters in Culver City, California.

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Organ harvesting from Falun Gong practitioners in China

Allegations of forced organ harvesting from Falun Gong practitioners and other political prisoners in China have raised concern within the international community.

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Organ transplantation in China

Organ transplantation in China has taken place since the 1960s, and is one of the largest organ transplant programmes in the world, peaking at over 13,000 liver and kidney transplants a year in 2004.

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People's Armed Police

The People's Armed Police Force is a Chinese paramilitary organization primarily responsible for internal security, riot control, counter-terrorism, disaster response, law enforcement and maritime rights protection as well as providing support to the People's Liberation Army (PLA) during wartime.

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People's Liberation Army

The People's Liberation Army (PLA) is the military of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) and the People's Republic of China.

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Per capita

Per capita is a Latin phrase literally meaning "by heads" or "for each head", and idiomatically used to mean "per person".

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Political corruption

Political corruption is the use of powers by government officials or their network contacts for illegitimate private gain.

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Probation

Probation in criminal law is a period of supervision over an offender, ordered by the court often in lieu of incarceration.

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Public execution

A public execution is a form of capital punishment which "members of the general public may voluntarily attend." This definition excludes the presence of only a small number of witnesses called upon to assure executive accountability.

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Qin (state)

Qin (or Ch'in) was an ancient Chinese state during the Zhou dynasty.

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Qin dynasty

The Qin dynasty was the first dynasty of Imperial China.

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Qing dynasty

The Qing dynasty, officially the Great Qing, was a Manchu-led imperial dynasty of China and the last imperial dynasty in Chinese history.

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Refugee Review Tribunal

The Refugee Review Tribunal was an Australian administrative law tribunal established in 1993.

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Rendition (law)

In law, rendition is a "surrender" or "handing over" of persons or property, particularly from one jurisdiction to another.

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Six gentlemen of the Hundred Days' Reform

Six gentlemen of the Hundred Days' Reform, also known as Six gentlemen of Wuxu, were a group of six Chinese intellectuals whom the Empress Dowager Cixi had arrested and executed for their attempts to implement the Hundred Days' Reform.

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Song dynasty

The Song dynasty was an imperial dynasty of China that ruled from 960 to 1279.

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Standing Committee of the National People's Congress

The Standing Committee of the National People's Congress (NPCSC) is the permanent body of the National People's Congress (NPC), the national legislature of the People's Republic of China.

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Supreme People's Court

The Supreme People's Court of the People's Republic of China (SPC) is the highest court of the People's Republic of China.

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Tang Code

The Tang Code was a penal code that was established and used during the Tang dynasty in China.

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Tang dynasty

The Tang dynasty (唐朝), or the Tang Empire, was an imperial dynasty of China that ruled from 618 to 907, with an interregnum between 690 and 705.

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Tencent QQ

Tencent QQ, also known as QQ, is an instant messaging software service and web portal developed by the Chinese technology company Tencent.

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The British Journal of Criminology

The British Journal of Criminology is a bi-monthly peer-reviewed criminology and law journal focusing on British and international criminology.

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The China Quarterly

The China Quarterly (CQ) is a British triple-anonymous peer-reviewed academic journal established in 1960 on contemporary China including Taiwan.

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The New York Times

The New York Times (NYT) is an American daily newspaper based in New York City.

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The Washington Post

The Washington Post, locally known as "the Post" and, informally, WaPo or WP, is an American daily newspaper published in Washington, D.C., the national capital.

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Torture

Torture is the deliberate infliction of severe pain or suffering on a person for reasons including punishment, extracting a confession, interrogation for information, intimidating third parties, or entertainment.

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Triad (organized crime)

A triad is a Chinese transnational organized crime syndicate based in Greater China with outposts in various countries having significant overseas Chinese populations.

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United States Department of State

The United States Department of State (DOS), or simply the State Department, is an executive department of the U.S. federal government responsible for the country's foreign policy and relations.

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Warring States period

The Warring States period was an era in ancient Chinese history characterized by warfare, bureaucratic and military reform, and political consolidation.

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Western Zhou

The Western Zhou (771 BC) was a period of Chinese history corresponding roughly to the first half of the Zhou dynasty.

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World Coalition Against the Death Penalty

The World Coalition Against the Death Penalty is an international alliance of NGOs, bar associations, local governments and trade unions that aims to strengthen the international dimension of political opposition to capital punishment.

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World Wide Fund for Nature

The World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) is a Swiss-based international non-governmental organization founded in 1961 that works in the field of wilderness preservation and the reduction of human impact on the environment.

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Xiao Yang (judge)

Xiao Yang (1 August 1938 – 19 April 2019) was a Chinese judge and politician.

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Xinhua News Agency

Xinhua News Agency (English pronunciation),J.

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Yuan dynasty

The Yuan dynasty, officially the Great Yuan (Mongolian:, Yeke Yuwan Ulus, literally "Great Yuan State"), was a Mongol-led imperial dynasty of China and a successor state to the Mongol Empire after its ''de facto'' division.

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Zheng Xiaoyu

Zheng Xiaoyu (December 10, 1944July 10, 2007) was the director of the State Food and Drug Administration of the People's Republic of China from 2003 to 2005.

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2019–2020 Hong Kong protests

The 2019–2020 Hong Kong protests (also known by other names) were a series of demonstrations against the Hong Kong government's introduction of a bill to amend the Fugitive Offenders Ordinance in regard to extradition.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capital_punishment_in_China

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