2. The Criminal Justice System and the Death Penalty

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1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Foreword vii
4. Preface and acknowledgments xi
5. 1. China’s Death Penalty Practice: Working Progress, Struggle, and Challenges Within the Global Abolition Movement 1
6. 2. The Criminal Justice System and the Death Penalty 31
7. 3. Crimes of Counterrevolution and Politicized Use of the Death Penalty During the Mao Era 62
8. 4. China’s Death Penalty in a State- Power- Based Society 97
9. 5. From “Killing Many” to “Killing Fewer” 123
10. 6. The Abolitionist and Retentionist Debate 156
11. 7. Guiding Cases for China’s Death Penalty 187
12. 8. The Death Penalty After the Restoration of Centralized Review 214
13. 9. Public Opinion and the Death Penalty 247
14. 10. Between Deference and Defiance 274
15. 11. Chinese Capital Punishment in Comparative Perspective 300
16. 12. China’s Death Penalty in the Twenty- First Century 327
17. List of contributors 351
18. Index 355