Capital offences in China

In China there are 46^[1] 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.

List of capital offences

Crimes of Endangering Public Security

1. Treason
2. Separatism
3. Armed rebellion, rioting
4. Collaborating with the enemy
5. Spying or espionage
6. Selling state secrets
7. Providing material support to the enemy

Crimes of Endangering Public Security

8. Arson
9. Flooding (e.g., breaching dams, dikes or waterways)
10. Bombing
11. Spreading poisons
12. Spreading hazardous substances (e.g., radioactive, toxic, pathogenic)
13. Seriously endangering public safety, broadly construed
14. Sabotaging electricity
15. Sabotaging gas, fuel, petroleum, or other flammables or explosives
16. Hijacking aircraft
17. Illegal possession, transport, smuggling, or selling of explosives or firearms
18. Trafficking or smuggling nuclear materials
19. Illegally manufacturing, selling, transporting or storing hazardous materials
20. Theft of explosives or other dangerous material
21. Theft of firearms, ammunition or other dangerous material

Economic crimes

22. Production or sale of counterfeit medicine
23. Production or sale of hazardous food products

Crimes against the person

29. Intentional homicide
30. Intentional assault
31. Rape
32. Kidnapping
33. Human trafficking

Crimes against property

34. Robbery

Crimes against public order

35. Prison escape, jailbreaking
36. Raiding a prison
37. Smuggling, dealing, transporting or manufacturing drugs

Crimes against national defense

40. Sabotaging weapons, military installations, or military communications
41. Providing substandard weapons or military installations

Corruption and bribery

42. Embezzlement

Breach of duty by soldiers

44. Insubordination
45. Concealment or false reporting of military intelligence
46. Refusing to pass or falsely passing orders
47. Surrender
48. Defection with aircraft or ships
49. Selling military secrets
50. Theft of military weaponry or supplies
51. Illegally selling or transferring military weaponry or supplies
52. Killing innocent inhabitants of war zones or plundering their property
53. Cowardice

References

1. "中国刑法再次修正取消9个死刑罪名". BBC News. 29 August 2015.

External links

• Full text of China's Criminal Code

Further reading

• LU Hong (5 November 2008). "China's Death Penalty: Reforms on Capital Punishment (EAI Background Brief No. 412" (PDF). East Asian Institute, National University of Singapore. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2010-02-15.