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Chinese Netizens' Opinions on Death Sentences: An Empirical Examination

By (author) Bin Liang, By (author) Jianhong Liu

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Few social issues have received more public attention and scholarly debate than the death penalty. While the abolitionist movement has made a successful stride in recent decades, a small number of countries remain committed to the death penalty and impose it with a relatively high frequency. In this regard, the Peopleâ€™s Republic of China no doubt leads the world in both numbers of death sentences and executions. Despite being the largest user of the death penalty, China has never conducted a national poll on citizensâ€™ opinions toward capital punishment, while claiming â€œoverwhelming public supportâ€ as a major justification for its retention and use. Based on a content analysis of 38,512 comments collected from 63 cases in 2015, this study examines the diversity and rationales of netizensâ€™ opinions of and interactions with Chinaâ€™s criminal justice system. In addition, the book discusses Chinaâ€™s social, systemic, and structural problems and critically examines the rationality of netizensâ€™ opinions based on Habermasâ€™s communicative rationality framework. Readers will be able to contextualize Chinese netizensâ€™ discussions and draw conclusions about commonalities and uniqueness of Chinaâ€™s death penalty practice.