Do these powerful guys ever end up actually being executed? I only ever hear about the sentencing.
edit: google ai says usually the two-year reprieve turns into a commuted sentence to life imprisonment for good behavior, but there are some exceptions.
Li Jianping (executed 2024)
In December 2024, China executed Li Jianping, a former official from Inner Mongolia, for what Chinese state media called the country’s largest corruption case.
He was convicted of embezzling more than 3 billion yuan (over $421 million), along with charges of bribery, misuse of public funds, and colluding with a criminal syndicate.
His death sentence was issued in September 2022 and upheld on appeal in August 2024, with the execution carried out in December 2024.
The execution was approved by the Supreme People’s Court, a rare application of the death penalty for graft cases, demonstrating President Xi Jinping’s intensifying anti-corruption campaign.
Lai Xiaomin (executed 2021)
In January 2021, Lai Xiaomin, a former chairman of one of China’s largest state-controlled asset management firms, China Huarong, was executed for corruption and bigamy.
He was convicted of taking “extremely large” bribes totaling over $260 million.
Footage was shown on Chinese state television of safes and cabinets in his apartment stuffed with cash.
Liu Han (executed 2015)
In 2015, Liu Han, a former mining tycoon and billionaire, was executed for running a “mafia-style” gang.
He was found guilty of leading a criminal organization involved in murder, assault, and embezzlement.
The execution was seen as part of Xi Jinping’s anti-corruption drive, targeting wealthy individuals with connections to out-of-favor politicians.
It’s actually very common for life imprisonment sentence (无期徒刑) to change to x number of years imprisonment (有期徒刑) for people who are well-connected.
Perhaps the most high profile case is Tian Wenhua, the CEO of Sanlu Group whose infant formula erupted into a major scandal in China and worldwide (due to timing with 2008 Beijing Olympics) that resulted in 300k cases of infant toxicities and 50k cases of hospitalization.
In 2009, she was sentenced to life imprisonment. In 2011, due to good behavior, the sentence was changed to 19 years of imprisonment. In 2014, reduced sentence by 1 year and 9 months, and in 2016, another one and a half year of reduced sentence. At this rate, she will be released in 2027. (read the linked wiki above)
Corruption is extremely rampant in China, especially at the local level. Xi has been fighting corruption for the past 10 years and it just never ends. Like, literally never ends.
The system of reducing sentences like that seems like a fair thing with documented good behavior, but god damn 50k infant hospitalizations isn’t enough for them to just execute her?
Corruption is extremely rampant in China, especially at the local level. Xi has been fighting corruption for the past 10 years and it just never ends. Like, literally never ends.
" :smuglord: smh you silly tankies, Chyna is corrupt communist hellhole, those YouTubers were right!"
They should try to be more like America and just build corruption into the system and make it all legal, that way it isn’t corruption anymore, problem solved!
It’s just as rampant in the West, though I’m mostly struck by how the heck are there so much corruption in China as though the risk of getting caught under a decade long of anti-corruption campaign is still worth it. A few heads of major banks were just prosecuted for corruption a couple months back (amongst many others charged with corruption in recent years), but you can’t help but to wonder why would they keep doing it knowing full well that the government has been cracking down on corruption?
(Actually I have my own theory, it has a lot to do with the decentralized nature of governance where a lot of authorities have been ceded to local/municipal level).
As I understand it, the “deferred death penalty” like this is more like a very stern warning paired with other penalties, and gets used for corruption cases that didn’t actively kill people. So, say, a factory owner that negligently cut corners and ignored safety standards that subsequently killed workers or poisoned consumers would just get executed, while someone taking bribes without lethal consequences just gets prison time and a “no seriously be on your best behavior and don’t even hint that you’ll ever do crimes again” warning.
Do these powerful guys ever end up actually being executed? I only ever hear about the sentencing.
edit: google ai says usually the two-year reprieve turns into a commuted sentence to life imprisonment for good behavior, but there are some exceptions.
It’s actually very common for life imprisonment sentence (无期徒刑) to change to x number of years imprisonment (有期徒刑) for people who are well-connected.
Perhaps the most high profile case is Tian Wenhua, the CEO of Sanlu Group whose infant formula erupted into a major scandal in China and worldwide (due to timing with 2008 Beijing Olympics) that resulted in 300k cases of infant toxicities and 50k cases of hospitalization.
In 2009, she was sentenced to life imprisonment. In 2011, due to good behavior, the sentence was changed to 19 years of imprisonment. In 2014, reduced sentence by 1 year and 9 months, and in 2016, another one and a half year of reduced sentence. At this rate, she will be released in 2027. (read the linked wiki above)
Corruption is extremely rampant in China, especially at the local level. Xi has been fighting corruption for the past 10 years and it just never ends. Like, literally never ends.
The system of reducing sentences like that seems like a fair thing with documented good behavior, but god damn 50k infant hospitalizations isn’t enough for them to just execute her?
talk about a half measure
" :smuglord: smh you silly tankies, Chyna is corrupt communist hellhole, those YouTubers were right!"
They should try to be more like America and just build corruption into the system and make it all legal, that way it isn’t corruption anymore, problem solved!
It’s just as rampant in the West, though I’m mostly struck by how the heck are there so much corruption in China as though the risk of getting caught under a decade long of anti-corruption campaign is still worth it. A few heads of major banks were just prosecuted for corruption a couple months back (amongst many others charged with corruption in recent years), but you can’t help but to wonder why would they keep doing it knowing full well that the government has been cracking down on corruption?
(Actually I have my own theory, it has a lot to do with the decentralized nature of governance where a lot of authorities have been ceded to local/municipal level).
As I understand it, the “deferred death penalty” like this is more like a very stern warning paired with other penalties, and gets used for corruption cases that didn’t actively kill people. So, say, a factory owner that negligently cut corners and ignored safety standards that subsequently killed workers or poisoned consumers would just get executed, while someone taking bribes without lethal consequences just gets prison time and a “no seriously be on your best behavior and don’t even hint that you’ll ever do crimes again” warning.
There are way too many names, numbers, and other specific details for any AI to have all of that right.
curious now how they carry out the executions
surely this cant be a capital crime lmao