THE EXECUTION AND THE DEATH PENALTY IN CHINA, EXECUTIONS GENERALLY TAKE PLACE....

 execution and the death penalty in China, Executions generally take place in specialized chambers or vans, 

away from public view. Executions are mainly carried out by hanging, shooting in the back of the head or lethal injection.

EXECUTIONS AND THE DEATH PENALTY IN CHINA

Executions are carried out by hanging, shooting in the back of the head or lethal injection.

 In many years there are several times more reported executions in China than the rest of the world combined.

 Even then according to Amnesty International: "Only a fraction of death sentences and executions carried out in China are publicly reported." 

The annual toll is not released and is treated as a state secret.

These days many executions are carried out with a lethal injection as opposed to gunshots. Executions generally take place in specialized chambers or vans, away from public view. 

In 2009, the city of Beijing began using lethal injections in the execution of condemned prisoners instead of shooting them. 

In January 2008, the Chinese government announced it would expand the use of lethal execution and phase out executions by gunshot.

Severe punishments have traditionally been regarded as a warning, summed by the old Chinese saying "killing a chicken to scare the monkeys." 

During the Cultural Revolution executions were often performed in public, and Chinese citizens were often forced to watch as "a form of solidarity with the people against the people's enemies."

On August 30, 1983, 30 convicted criminals were executed in a sports stadium before a cheering crowd of 60,000 people. 

In the 1970s some executions were broadcast on prime time television. Even today there are mass sentencing rallies and public executions.

There have been cases of innocent people being executed. 

Defendants who face the death penalty are often denied their rights. In one case involved a migrant worker who killed four people the ruling on his appeal was done by the same judge who made the initial ruling.

A suspended death sentence is usually commuted to life imprisonment after two years if the person shows good behavior. 

This can later be reduced to 20 years or less with good behavior. In 2007 prisoners that received these “death penalties with reprieves” outnumbered prisoners that were executed.

Studies seem to indicate that the threat of capital punishment does little to deter crime. 

The official position in China is that someday China will abolish the death penalty but that "conditions aren't right" to do so now.

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