The Capital Punishment in the United States and the People's Republic of China

Authors: Molodtsova A.M.
Published in issue: #3(80)/2023
DOI: 10.18698/2541-8009-2023-3-873
Category: Jurisprudence | Chapter: Criminal Law and Criminology
Keywords: capital punishment, lethal injection, electric chair, United States law, People's Republic of China law, crimes, death sentence, U.S. legal system, punishment method, punishment technique
Published: 27.04.2023

The paper is devoted to features of use of the capital punishment as the supreme punishment in the United States and the People's Republic of China. The crimes which, according to the current criminal legislation of these countries, can entail the capital punishment, are presented. The procedure of implementation of the capital punishment is considered. The possible ways of killing a person within the framework of criminal punishment are described in detail, the age groups for which the question of imposing the capital punishment can be raised are designated. The general orientation of the state policy of the People's Republic of China and the United States in the field of improvement of the mechanism of application of the most severe type of punishment in the conditions of globalization and humanization of society is revealed. The topic is relevant as a pretext for a discussion of whether the capital punishment is a deterrent to crime.

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