From “Killing Many” to “Killing Fewer”
From “Killing Many” to “Killing Fewer”
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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