Sun Lijun and Fu Zhenghua, formerly powerful ministers in China’s state security apparatus, have been sentenced to death with a two year reprieve for corruption and other crimes. Such sentences ...

China on Monday executed two men convicted of separate deadly attacks carried out in November amid a series of violent crimes ...

He had deliberately driven a small SUV through crowds of people exercising outside a sports complex. Read more at straitstimes.com.

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 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 ...

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

A Chinese man has been sentenced to death for fatally stabbing a 10-year-old Japanese schoolboy, in a case that sparked concern among Japanese expats living in China. The sentence for the knife attack ...

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 ...

The execution of a rapist and murderer sparked debate, though public support for capital punishment remains high among ...