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Xiao: Death sentences on trial in open courts
By Liu Li (China Daily)
Updated: 2006-02-25 07:26

All death penalty appeals must be heard in an open court from the latter half of this year to better protect human rights, China's chief justice Xiao Yang announced on Friday.

Xiao made the remarks at a two-day seminar in Zhengzhou in Central China's Henan Province, sources with the Supreme People's Court (SPC) revealed.

"The move will ensure justice and caution in death penalty rulings," he said.

So far, the High People's Courts in Shanghai, Beijing, Tianjin, Hainan and Qinghai have held open sessions on death penalty appeal cases, according to Xiao, head of SPC.

According to Chinese law, traditionally only intermediate people's courts at the city level held the power to make the first verdict on death penalty judgments. Defendants would then appeal the initial judgment to the high people's court at a provincial level.

The Criminal Procedural Law requires courts to hear in open session all cases protested by public prosecutors after reviewing the details of the first death penalty rulings. However, for appeals by the defendant, the law says that the court should, "in principle," hold an open session, but a documentary review would suffice if the facts in a case are clear.

In reality, documentary reviews have become the preferred option of most high courts, and open sessions are an exception, sources said.

The media has exposed several instances of miscarriages of justice in recent years, which has led to a criticism of the courts' lack of caution in pronouncing the ultimate punishment.

"Initial open court sessions of death penalty cases during their second verdict in some provinces and municipalities have proved to be successful. The Supreme People's Court is confident to spread it nationwide," Xiao said.

The SPC required all high people's courts to better negotiate with procuratorates, police and justice administrative departments to get their support on the issue.

To openly hear death-sentence appeals was only part of the latest moves by the SPC to ensure caution regarding the death penalty in order to better protect human rights. The court will withdraw the death sentence review power this year, Xiao said last month.

China's 1979 edition of the Criminal Procedural Law specified that all death sentences with immediate execution must be reviewed by the Supreme People's Court.

However, in a bid to strike hard at criminals, the People's Court Organizational Law, promulgated in 1983, gave power to the provincial high people's court to make the final judgement on special immediate execution cases.

Since then, it has been found that only reviewing death penalty cases at the provincial level can result in miscarriages of justice.



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