Posted: Soumis par wtanaka (648) le mar, 2006-02-28 14:19. | Sujet: Death Penalty in China

China's apparently trying to reform death penalty legal procedures.  The supreme court is going to start reviewing death penalty cases again, which it had stopped doing in 1983.  Appeals in death penalty cases are going to start being held publicly, whereas previously the hearings were closed.

Chinese were outraged by the case of a butcher executed for murdering a waitress who was later found alive, and that of a man who served 11 years for murdering his wife, who turned up not only alive but with a new husband.

Both cases were widely reported and put criminal justice at the top of the legal agenda.

But Liu said China's annual session of parliament, which opens Sunday, was unlikely to make headway in legal reforms or to enshrine the Supreme Court's efforts to be the only court to handle death penalty cases.

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