China

Currently, according to the People's Republic of China Supreme People's Court, there are sixty-eight crimes punishable by death including those that are nonviolent, such as crimes relating to smuggling, fraud, and infringment upon rights. However, Article 49 in the Chinese criminal code prohibits the execution of an individual who was under age eighteen at the time that they committed the crime ("Criminal Law...").

("Criminal Law...")
 * 1) Committing arson, breaching a dike, causing explosion, spreading poison or inflicting serious injury or death on people or causes heavy losses of public or private property by other dangerous means
 * 2) Sabotaging any means of transport, transportation facility, electric power facility, gas facility, or inflammable or explosive equipment, thereby causing serious consequences
 * 3) Any hijacker who causes serious injury to or death of any other person or serious damage to aircraft
 * 4) Illegally manufacturing, trading, transporting, mailing or storing any guns, ammunition or explosives in serious circumstances.
 * 5) Stealing or forcibly seizing any guns, ammunition or explosives in serious circumstances
 * 6) Robbery of any guns, ammunition or explosives or stealing or forcibly seizing any guns, ammunition or explosives from State organs, members of the armed forces, the police or the people's militia
 * 7) Producing or selling fake medicines that cause death especially if serious harm is done to human health
 * 8) Mixing the foods that one produces or sells with toxic or harmful non-food raw materials or knowingly selling foods that cause death or especially serious harm
 * 9) Smuggling drugs, weapons, ammunition, nuclear materials or counterfeit currency if circumstances are serious
 * 10) Smuggling cultural relics, gold, silver or other precious metals, the export of which is forbidden by the State, or precious and rare species of wildlife as well as the products thereof, the import and export of which are forbidden by the State if the circumstances are especially serious
 * 11) Whoever counterfeits currencies and
 * being a ringleader of a gang engaged in counterfeiting currencies;
 * having counterfeited currencies in especially huge, amounts; or
 * being involved in other especially serious circumstances
 * 1) <span style="font: 12pt/150% Palatino Linotype; letter-spacing: normal; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0ex; text-transform: none; word-spacing: normal;">Whoever, for the purpose of illegal possession, unlawfully raises funds by means of fraud
 * 2) <span style="font: 12pt/150% Palatino Linotype; letter-spacing: normal; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0ex; text-transform: none; word-spacing: normal;">Whoever commits fraud by means of financial bills in any of the following ways:
 * <span style="font: 12pt/150% Palatino Linotype; letter-spacing: normal; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0ex; text-transform: none; word-spacing: normal;">knowingly using forged or altered bills of exchange, promissory notes or cheques;
 * <span style="font: 12pt/150% Palatino Linotype; letter-spacing: normal; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0ex; text-transform: none; word-spacing: normal;">knowingly using invalidated bills of exchange, promissory notes or cheques;
 * <span style="font: 12pt/150% Palatino Linotype; letter-spacing: normal; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0ex; text-transform: none; word-spacing: normal;">illegally using another's bills of exchange, promissory notes or cheques;
 * <span style="font: 12pt/150% Palatino Linotype; letter-spacing: normal; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0ex; text-transform: none; word-spacing: normal;">signing and issuing a rubber cheque or a cheque, on which the seal is not in conformity with the reserved specimen seal, in order to defraud money or property; or
 * <span style="font: 12pt/150% Palatino Linotype; letter-spacing: normal; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0ex; text-transform: none; word-spacing: normal;">signing or issuing bills of exchange or promissory notes without funds as a guaranty, in the capacity of a drawer, falsely specifying the particulars thereon at the time of issue, in order to defraud money or property
 * 1) <span style="font: 12pt/150% Palatino Linotype; letter-spacing: normal; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0ex; text-transform: none; word-spacing: normal;">Whoever commits fraud by means of a letter of credit in any of the following ways:
 * <span style="font: 12pt/150% Palatino Linotype; letter-spacing: normal; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0ex; text-transform: none; word-spacing: normal;">using a forged or altered letter of credit or any of its attached bills or documents;
 * <span style="font: 12pt/150% Palatino Linotype; letter-spacing: normal; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0ex; text-transform: none; word-spacing: normal;">using an invalidated letter of credit;
 * <span style="font: 12pt/150% Palatino Linotype; letter-spacing: normal; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0ex; text-transform: none; word-spacing: normal;">fraudulently obtaining a letter of credit;
 * <span style="font: 12pt/150% Palatino Linotype; letter-spacing: normal; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0ex; text-transform: none; word-spacing: normal;">in any other way; or
 * <span style="font: 12pt/150% Palatino Linotype; letter-spacing: normal; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0ex; text-transform: none; word-spacing: normal;">if the amount involved is especially huge, and especially heavy losses are caused to the interests of the State and the people.
 * 1) <span style="font: 12pt/150% Palatino Linotype; letter-spacing: normal; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0ex; text-transform: none; word-spacing: normal;">Whoever falsely makes out special invoices for value-added tax or any other invoices to defraud a tax refund for exports or to offset tax money if the amount involved is especially huge, and the circumstances are especially serious, thus causing especially heavy losses to the interests of the State
 * 2) <span style="font: 12pt/150% Palatino Linotype; letter-spacing: normal; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0ex; text-transform: none; word-spacing: normal;">Whoever forges or sells forged special invoices for value-added tax shall, if the number involved is especially huge, and the circumstances are especially serious so that economic order is seriously disrupted
 * 3) <span style="font: 12pt/150% Palatino Linotype; letter-spacing: normal; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0ex; text-transform: none; word-spacing: normal;">Intentionally commits homicide
 * 4) <span style="font: 12pt/150% Palatino Linotype; letter-spacing: normal; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0ex; text-transform: none; word-spacing: normal;">Intentionally inflicting injury upon another person AND if he/she causes death to the person or, by resorting to especially cruel means, causes severe injury to the person, thereby disabling them
 * 5) <span style="font: 12pt/150% Palatino Linotype; letter-spacing: normal; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0ex; text-transform: none; word-spacing: normal;">Raping a woman or having sexual intercourse with a girl under the age of 14 in any of the following circumstances:
 * 6) <span style="font: 12pt/150% Palatino Linotype; letter-spacing: normal; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0ex; text-transform: none; word-spacing: normal;">the circumstances being flagrant;
 * 7) <span style="font: 12pt/150% Palatino Linotype; letter-spacing: normal; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0ex; text-transform: none; word-spacing: normal;">raping a number of women or girls under the age of 14;
 * 8) <span style="font: 12pt/150% Palatino Linotype; letter-spacing: normal; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0ex; text-transform: none; word-spacing: normal;">raping a woman before the public in a public place;
 * 9) <span style="font: 12pt/150% Palatino Linotype; letter-spacing: normal; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0ex; text-transform: none; word-spacing: normal;">raping a woman with one or more persons in succession; or
 * 10) <span style="font: 12pt/150% Palatino Linotype; letter-spacing: normal; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0ex; text-transform: none; word-spacing: normal;">causing serious injury or death to the victim or any other serious consequences
 * 11) <span style="font: 12pt/150% Palatino Linotype; letter-spacing: normal; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0ex; text-transform: none; word-spacing: normal;">Unlawfully detaining another person or unlawfully depriving the personal freedom of another person by any other means AND if he causes injury, disability or death to the victim by violence
 * 12) <span style="font: 12pt/150% Palatino Linotype; letter-spacing: normal; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0ex; text-transform: none; word-spacing: normal;">Unlawfully detaining or confining another person in order to get payment of a debt does the same in (20)
 * 13) <span style="font: 12pt/150% Palatino Linotype; letter-spacing: normal; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0ex; text-transform: none; word-spacing: normal;">Where a functionary of a State organ commits any of the crimes mentioned in (20)
 * 14) <span style="font: 12pt/150% Palatino Linotype; letter-spacing: normal; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0ex; text-transform: none; word-spacing: normal;">Kidnapping another person for the purpose of extorting money or property or kidnapping another person as a hostage
 * 15) <span style="font: 12pt/150% Palatino Linotype; letter-spacing: normal; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0ex; text-transform: none; word-spacing: normal;">Abducting and trafficking in a woman or child AND if the circumstances are especially serious beyond the following:
 * <span style="font: 12pt/150% Palatino Linotype; letter-spacing: normal; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0ex; text-transform: none; word-spacing: normal;">being a ringleader of a gang engaged in abducting and trafficking in women and children;
 * <span style="font: 12pt/150% Palatino Linotype; letter-spacing: normal; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0ex; text-transform: none; word-spacing: normal;">abducting and trafficking in three or more women and/or children;
 * <span style="font: 12pt/150% Palatino Linotype; letter-spacing: normal; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0ex; text-transform: none; word-spacing: normal;">raping the woman who is abducted and trafficked in;
 * <span style="font: 12pt/150% Palatino Linotype; letter-spacing: normal; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0ex; text-transform: none; word-spacing: normal;">enticing or forcing the woman who is abducted and trafficked in to engage in prostitution, or selling such woman to any other person who would force her to engage in prostitution;
 * <span style="font: 12pt/150% Palatino Linotype; letter-spacing: normal; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0ex; text-transform: none; word-spacing: normal;">kidnapping a woman or child by means of violence, coercion or anaesthesia for the purpose of selling them;
 * <span style="font: 12pt/150% Palatino Linotype; letter-spacing: normal; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0ex; text-transform: none; word-spacing: normal;">stealing a baby or an infant for the purpose of selling them;
 * <span style="font: 12pt/150% Palatino Linotype; letter-spacing: normal; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0ex; text-transform: none; word-spacing: normal;">causing serious injury or death to the woman or child who is abducted and trafficked in or to her or his relatives or any other serious consequences; or
 * <span style="font: 12pt/150% Palatino Linotype; letter-spacing: normal; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0ex; text-transform: none; word-spacing: normal;">selling a woman or a child out of the territory of China
 * 1) <span style="font: 12pt/150% Palatino Linotype; letter-spacing: normal; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0ex; text-transform: none; word-spacing: normal;">Illegally selling or transferring weapons or equipment of the armed forces AND if a large amount of weapons or equipment is sold or transferred or if there are other especially serious circumstances involved
 * 2) <span style="font: 12pt/150% Palatino Linotype; letter-spacing: normal; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0ex; text-transform: none; word-spacing: normal;">Any serviceman who, during wartime, cruelly injures innocent residents in an area of military operation or plunders their money or property AND if the circumstances are serious

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