飞思卡尔入门视频教程:Justice?by?death?in?China

Justice by death in China

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中国

死刑

印度斯坦时报

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“Most Chinese people can’t imagine a society without death penalty,’’ rights lawyer Teng Biao told HT in Beijing. “They don’t have the chance to know of an alternative.’’

The Communist Party this year cut its list of capital crimes — forging tax invoices, for example, is no longer a deadly sin. But leniency for graver crimes like corruption and hit-and-runs still face public resistance. Beijing also tried to plug growing public anger over toxic milk and food with an assurance that food safety violators who cause fatalities will be punishable by death.

Recent death sentences aimed at showing the public the party’s grip on high-profile corruption down to the farmer who laces pork with chemicals. Since June, China has executed a 21-year-old music student who stabbed a waitress to death, two corrupt ex-vice mayors of Hangzhou and Suzhou and a truck driver convicted of killing a herder in May and sparking ethnic riots in Inner Mongolia.

The death penalty is ‘deeply rooted’ and ‘widely popular’ in Chinese culture, said San Francisco-based John Kamm, spokesman of the Dui Hua Foundation. An average 60-70% Chinese vote in favour of it on polls, he said.

The first stirring of a change in China’s mood on capital punishment came this summer with a small group of students and legal scholars speaking up against retributive justice as a pale pianist in a navy sweatshirt wept in court. Yao Jiaxin was executed eight months after he killed a woman.

India has executed one person since 1995.

The trial of Yao Jiaxin
“Our home is like hell,’’ tweeted Yao Qingwei in August. “My wife is incoherent. She often speaks to herself, regretting not cooking her child’s last meal.’’

He declined to speak to HT on the events since the night in Xian last October when his son Jiaxin’s new red Chevrolet hit Zhang Miao, 26, on her bike. As the mother of a toddler memorised the license plate number, the student stabbed her eight times to avoid arrest and compensation.

Yao Jiaxin unleashed a tsunami of online opinion favouring capital punishment and scorning the youth values of the new rich generation. Chinese tweets on the issue roused more passion than the statements from Indian political camps divided on mercy for the Gandhi killers.

“The motive was extremely despicable,’’ stated the Supreme People’s Court, rejecting his appeal. Yao’s execution drew over 1.35 million micro-blog posts.

Days later, a Yunnan murder convict with a death sentence revised to a two-year reprieve was back on death row under public pressure.

“Death penalty has a mass base in China,’’ argued Zhang Xian who represented Zhang’s family, recently on his micro-blog. He has over 80,000 online followers.

Anti-corruption dose

The non-elected Party wields the lethal injection to boost its legitimacy in the face of mounting public frustration against corruption. China is 79 on the Transparency International index despite imposing the ultimate anti-corruption dose. Some analysts speculate that undetected corruption in China may be worse than India’s, which ranks 84 on the index. An ex-railway minister who led China’s bullet train project is the latest top official under investigation.

“They select some officials as a model,’’ said Teng, “because it is not possible to arrest and punish all corrupt officials.”

In July, a former executive convicted of corruption in China Mobile, the world’s largest mobile phone operator, was sentenced to death with a two-year reprieve. Teng wrote recently that sentences are delivered under guidance of the Party discipline inspection departments and the code of criminal procedure is merely a ‘reference’.

“Since the 1980s, China continuously conducted crackdowns with many death sentences,’’ law professor He Weifang at Peking University told HT. “After every crackdown another crackdown needs to be carried out, which indicates that death penalty doesn’t work.”

Dip in the death count

Dui Hua estimates that about 5,000 Chinese were executed in 2009, including Briton Akmal Shaikh, an alleged drug dealer. Until this year when the 68 crimes punishable by death were pared to 55 — including 31 non-violent crimes — the Chinese could face death even for smuggling antiques. Low-profile criminals are sentenced under the shadow of secretive trials.

“I’ve seen many cases where the innocent are sentenced to death,’’ said Teng. “Sometimes the PSB (police) denies lawyers meetings with clients. And state-appointed lawyers may be incapable or dare not go against the court.’’

Professor He campaigns for abolishing the death penalty and disclosing official records on executions. It may happen, ‘maybe in 20 years,’ he said.

The Supreme People’s Court (SPC) recently said China aims to make more cases eligible for reprieve, but campaigners are sceptical.

“There have been several such high-level admonitions since the SPC resumed final review of death sentences in 2007,’’ noted Kamm.

“Death penalty cases declined until 2009 and stabilised in 2010. It’s difficult to see how they will be less than 5,000 in 2011.”

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• HelloAlyusha2011-09-20 01:24:50 [举报]

  看不懂

• 2759741692011-09-20 01:28:32 [举报]

  沙发

• bngdone2011-09-20 01:50:50 [举报]

  希望能翻译下啊，这样看挺那个

• 六月的风2011-09-20 01:54:04 [举报]

  Most chinese believe bullets

• 胡笳2011-09-20 02:10:19 [举报]

  
  废除死刑是一件水到渠成的事。非民主国家的情绪是符合死刑制度的。

• 小鱼2011-09-20 02:18:06 [举报]

  贺老师。您现在只带博吗？ 来自：手机新浪网(手机访问sina.cn)  你也想用手机抢沙发？

• 小鱼2011-09-20 02:20:03 [举报]

  Most chinese believe bullets。我们的民族本身是相信剥皮实草的。 来自：手机新浪网(手机访问sina.cn)  你也想用手机抢沙发？

• 爱的路上2011-09-20 02:24:40 [举报]

  我是毛晓冉  到我博客坐把！一个进了就不想出去的微薄！！！！！
  
  

• perfect_blue2011-09-20 03:04:39 [举报]

  我发现纯英文的可以减少被河蟹的几率……

• 蓝天下2011-09-20 04:06:49 [举报]

  我是毛晓冉  到我博客坐把！一个进了就不想出去的微薄！！！！！
  
  

• 新浪网友2011-09-20 05:27:44 [举报]

  给你踩踩饿  你的博客超级火  去我那坐坐吧  进了就不想出去的博客！
  
  

• 积化和差2011-09-20 06:47:57 [举报]

  先mark再慢慢看

• 蓝天下2011-09-20 07:28:51 [举报]

  最近还好吗？？我是毛晓冉    帮我踩踩吧！！！！一个你进了及不想出去的博客！踩踩饿
  
  

• 自驾游侠2011-09-20 08:23:40 [举报]

  看不懂英文！！！

• 大熊2011-09-20 08:34:06 [举报]

  谢谢贺先生！此文经过翻译，看懂了。另外，我们需要更多这方面的信息。我相信前进一小步总比落后倒退要好

• 蓝天下2011-09-20 08:52:08 [举报]

  你被我hold了吗？到我博客去看看把！
  
  

• zhulei76982011-09-20 09:23:37 [举报]

  所谓印度最具影响力的英文报纸，不过是新闻联播一样的腔调：国外比较乱套，风景这边独好。这种预设立场的文章有什么价值？

• 新浪网友2011-09-20 09:32:30 [举报]

  
  民众的群体意识需要教育和引导，在缓慢改变的过程中知识精英的作用极为重要。虽然公民群体的认知和向心力才能改变社会，但精英的超前的目标确立和教育引导必不可少。因此，我要感谢像贺老师这样的精英，在民众还无法认识和接受废除死刑的问题时提出和引导这个理念，这才是知识人的应有的价值，那些顺从所谓的民意和为政府唱赞歌的御用文人毫无区别。

• yuyuxbc2011-09-20 09:44:16 [举报]

  
  好

• 秋水老爹2011-09-20 10:34:53 [举报]

  这样的数字触目惊心

• 东东2011-09-20 10:39:30 [举报]

  可以思考探讨，不管是什么腔调都可以看一看想一想，没有什么自以为是的“独好”。加拿大自1976年废除死刑，这几十年的犯罪率不升反降，去年达到自上个世纪六十年代以来的最低点，整个哥伦比亚省去年的谋杀人数只有83人。只是在中国这个文化背景下的非民主国家，是否适合废除死刑也是一个大问题。

• 觉者2011-09-20 12:00:56 [举报]

  
  一切法律的法源无不都是所在地的人文传统文化信念！
  在中国的传统文化人文背景下，废除死刑就是鼓励犯罪这是无可争议的！
  作为研究法律之人应该很清楚吧！

• 4633626432011-09-20 12:21:34 [举报]

      “Since the 1980s, China continuously conductedcrackdowns with many death sentences,’’ law professor He Weifang..."
      无非是王婆卖瓜，自卖自夸。既然你那么反对死刑，我很想问问你，如果你的家人孩子被人残忍的杀死，你会任由杀人犯活的逍遥自在。我觉得你这种人，虚伪。真的很虚伪，我也是高校的老师，虽然我是教计算机的。我姑且知道欠债还钱，杀人填命的道理。
      我和同意你说过的一些观点，比方说增加司法透明度，还有完善司法过程。但是废除死刑，我觉得你真是一个黑心的人。我不得不揣测，你之所以把这篇报道放出来大肆渲染，不过是因为里面有引用你的话而已。
      我不同意专家学者要低调，一心一意搞学术和科研。但是我觉得有些基本的常识不要用来作为炒作的工具。你可以抡铁锤砸自己的车来炒作，可以毒打自己的妻子来炒作，甚至你也可以和红十字会弄上一层说不清道不楚的关系来炒作。我也是做科研的，只不过我是研究计算机数学的。我明白做科研那种孤独寂寞，很想找人来发现自己的成果。但是，人不能因为这样就丧失了良知。
       我对你很失望，为了显摆报纸中出现的自己的名字而作出这种言行，很可耻。前一段时间我才和学生说中国有良知的知识分子提到了你，现在想想看，我确实是太无知了，竟你当作了圣人一般。
  

• 张学辉律师2011-09-20 13:39:32 [举报]

  死刑废除吾辈恐难实现。

• 新浪网友2011-09-20 15:47:12 [举报]

  对于一个法盲，我们可以原谅。但是不能原谅的是用下流的愤怒进行人生攻击！
  

• amazing26512011-09-20 15:47:43 [举报]

  废除死刑，任重道远。

• fayumimang2011-09-20 16:53:06 [举报]

  amazing26512011-09-20 15:47:43 [举报]
  废除死刑，任重道远。?
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  减少一点，很多老百姓就不理解了，何谈废除？
  
  在中国，最好少谈废除，多谈减少。