China’s top legislature said it was considering abolition of the death penalty for a range of non-violent economic crimes, including animal smuggling, tax evasion and forgery.
The proposed amendment to China’s criminal law would reduce the number of crimes punishable by death by about a fifth, from 68 to 55.
The amendment is the latest in a number of reforms to the death penalty pushed by the country’s legal scholars, who have complained that many people guilty of trivial crimes or unfairly tried have been executed.
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