In China there are 46 criminal offences that are eligible for the death penalty. Many of these offences are non-violent and economic criminal offences. The following is a list of them. As of June, 2016, sixty-eight different crimes — more than half non-violent offenses such as tax evasion and drug smuggling — are punishable by death in China.
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Crimes of Endangering National Security
- Treason
- Separatism
- Armed rebellion, rioting
- Collaborating with the enemy
- Spying or espionage
- Selling state secrets
- Providing material support to the enemy
Crimes of Endangering Public Security
- Arson
- Flooding
- Bombing
- Spreading poisons
- Spreading hazardous substances (e.g., radioactive, toxic, pathogenic)
- Seriously endangering public safety, broadly construed
- Sabotaging electricity
- Sabotaging gas, fuel, petroleum, or other flammables or explosives
- Hijacking aircraft
- Illegal possession, transport, smuggling, or selling of explosives or firearms
- Trafficking or smuggling nuclear materials
- Illegally manufacturing, selling, transporting or storing hazardous materials
- Theft of explosives or other dangerous material
- Theft of firearms, ammunition or other dangerous material
Economic crimes
- Production or sale of counterfeit medicine
- Production or sale of hazardous food products
Crimes against the person
- Intentional homicide
- Intentional assault
- Rape
- Kidnapping
- Human trafficking
Crimes against property
- Robbery
Crimes against public order
- Prison escape, jailbreaking
- Raiding a prison
- Smuggling, dealing, transporting or manufacturing drugs
Crimes against national defense
- Sabotaging weapons, military installations, or military communications
- Providing substandard weapons or military installations
Corruption and bribery
- Embezzlement
Breach of duty by soldiers
- Insubordination
- Concealment or false reporting of military intelligence
- Refusing to pass or falsely passing orders
- Surrender
- Defection with aircraft or ships
- Selling military secrets
- Theft of military weaponry or supplies
- Illegally selling or transferring military weaponry or supplies
- Killing innocent inhabitants of war zones or plundering their property
- Cowardice
References
Capital offences in China Wikipedia(Text) CC BY-SA