Donald Trump said Tuesday during the first presidential press conference of his second term that he wants to make a deal with Chinese President Xi to crack down on fentanyl smuggling: PRESIDENT DONALD ...

China classifies death penalty statistics as a state secret, but some rights groups believe the country executes thousands every year. Executions are traditionally carried out by gunshot ...

China classifies death penalty statistics as a state secret, but rights groups including Amnesty believe the country executes thousands every year.

China doesn't release details of its use of the death penalty, but the consensus among human rights groups is that Beijing executes more people than any other country. In recent months ...

A Chinese man has been sentenced to death for fatally stabbing a 10-year-old Japanese schoolboy, in a case that sparked ...

Still, a small number of netizens expressed skepticism of the death penalty. Weibo user Shumu Yangshenwo in Hainan province posted: "When will it be possible for China to abolish the death penalty ...

China has executed a man found guilty of killing at least 35 people in a car attack in November, in what is thought to be the deadliest attack in the country for a decade. Fan Weiqiu, 62, injured ...

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Reprinted with permission of the publisher.] As far back as the Ancient Laws of China, the death penalty has been established as a punishment for crimes. In the 18th Century BC, the Code of King ...

The Japanese Foreign Ministry says a court in China on Friday handed down the death penalty to a man tried for killing a Japanese boy.

China classifies death penalty statistics as a state secret, but rights groups including Amnesty believe the country executes thousands every year. AFP ...