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Punishment & Society, Vol. 10, No. 2, 117-136 (2008)
DOI: 10.1177/1462474507087195

The political origins of death penalty exceptionalism

Mao Zedong and the practice of capital punishment in contemporary China

Zhang Ning

University of Geneva, Switzerland

This article focuses on the role played by Mao Zedong in the making of the Chinese communist legal system in general and in the Chinese practice of the death penalty under Mao in particular. It attempts to study this link through an analysis of an event which represented a landmark, namely the campaign of the regression against counterrevolutionaries launched in 1950—2, and through an examination of three specific cases, which enable us to observe the concrete characteristics of these practices, whose effects continue to be felt in today's China.

Key Words: capital punishment • China


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