High court to order provinces to retry death sentences

China's Supreme People's Court (SPC) will not change sentences in death penalty cases, according to Chinese news agency Xinhua. Instead, if it finds errors…

1 minute readFebruary 28, 2007 at 11:58 PM

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China's Supreme People's Court (SPC) will not change sentences in death penalty cases, according to Chinese news agency Xinhua. Instead, if it finds errors in judgements, it will send cases back to the provincial courts for retrial.

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