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The Death Penalty In ChinaPolicy, Practice, and Reform$
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The Death Penalty In China: Policy, Practice, and Reform

Bin Liang and Hong Lu

Print publication date: 2015

Print ISBN-13: 9780231170079

Published to Columbia Scholarship Online: May 2016

DOI: 10.7312/columbia/9780231170079.001.0001

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From “Killing Many” to “Killing Fewer”

From “Killing Many” to “Killing Fewer”

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(p.123) 5 From “Killing Many” to “Killing Fewer”
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The Death Penalty In China
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Susan Trevaskes

Publisher:
Columbia University Press
DOI:10.7312/columbia/9780231170079.003.0005

This chapter details the transition of China’s death penalty practice from “killing many” to “killing fewer” in the new century and how the ‘severity’ and ‘leniency’ dialectic was played out based on the new policy of “balancing leniency and severity”.

Keywords:   ‘killing many’ vs ‘killing fewer’, ‘severity’ v. ‘leniency’, ‘immediate execution’ vs. ‘death sentence with reprieve’, Sihuan, strike-hard campaign, “leaving some leeway”

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