Roma - 20/03/2007 - Since the Supreme People's Court of China has reserved the right to review all death penalty cases, starting from January 1 to date, four death sentences were imposed, according to the Xinhua news agency reports that the names and charges of the defendants listed below:
- Maoge Yu, sentenced to death by the court in Shanghai for killed a taxi driver 14 November 2005.
- Guiyong Zhao, who kidnapped and killed a 10 year old child in June 2006 and sentenced to death by a court of Jiangxi, a province in east China.
- Liu Shilin, sentenced to death for raping two women, for having killed another and injured a young girl, in Jiangsu Province, another province in eastern China between 2005 and 2006.
- Shumu Li, who set fire to a house, killing a man and a woman December 7, 2005, in Fujian Province, southeast China, sentenced to death by the local court.
new measures have been taken on the imposition of capital punishment, so, each case must be scrutinized by the Chinese Supreme People's Court before being published in final sentence of death, the implementation must take place within one week after the pronouncement of the ruling by the Supreme Court.
In its review by the Supreme Court, have occurred where there was obvious lack of evidence, and these were re-submitted to local courts for further monitoring. It raises the level of control over death sentences in order to impose the death penalty only in the most obvious and serious, as the Supreme Court President Xiao Yang of the Chinese people and to prevent "miscarriage of justice."
China is, according to the association Hands Off Cain, one of the countries where the death penalty is applied to a greater extent than the rest of the countries that have not yet abolished by their constitution and holds the dubious distinction with Iran and Saudi Arabia. Despite the measures to a more rigid allocation of capital punishment, we are still far from the removal as requested by the moratorium presented to the UN Security Council.
(Sources: Xinhua, Cain)
The article was published on the website of cultural Versoriente at: http://www.versoriente.net/default.asp?riferimento=dettaglioNews&id=30
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