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Thursday, August 31, 2000, updated at 22:23(GMT+8)
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Lethal Injection Introduced As Form of Execution in China

A senior official from the Supreme People's Court disclosed today that China will adopt lethal injections in execution of death sentence across the country.

Executing criminals by shooting will also continue, the official said.

Shen Deyong, a vice-president of the Supreme People's Court, made the remark in an interview with Xinhua.

He said the Supreme People's Court has entrusted the Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences to make a research on the medicine for execution, and the research is close to an end.

Trials have been conducted by the people's courts in such cities as Kunming, Wuhan, Chengdu, Hangzhou and Luoyang, according to the vice-president.

Meanwhile, the Supreme People's Court has outlined a draft on regulations concerning several key issues related with adopting injection method in executions, which has been submitted to the Adjudging Committee of the Supreme People's Court for deliberation.

Currently, shooting method has been widely used across China in executions.

In 1996, the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress, China's top legislature, revised and further perfected the Criminal Procedural Law, which was formulated in 1979, in which lethal injections were included into China's legal clauses for the first time and became effective on January 1st 1997.

On March 28 of 1998, China's first trial of execution by injection was conducted in Kunming, capital city of southwest China's Yunnan Province.




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A senior official from the Supreme People's Court disclosed today that China will adopt lethal injections in execution of death sentence across the country.

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