This book examines the death penalty within the changing socio-political context of China. The authors' treatment of China's death penalty is legal, historical,

Featuring experts from Europe, Australia, Japan, China, and the United States, this collection of essays follows changes in the theory and policy of China's dea

In Beijing in 1904, multiple murderer Wang Weiqin became one of the last to suffer the extreme punishment known as lingchi, called by Western observers “death

This book provides an overview of capital punishment in Japan in a legal, historical, social, cultural and political context. It provides new insights into the