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Former president of China Merchants Bank, was given the death penalty with a two-year reprieve for crimes including taking bribes, abuse of power, insider trading and leaking insider information. (www.chinadaily.com.cn)

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 9 months ago (2 children)

Sounds a bit much, life sentence would have been fine but sure.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 9 months ago

I don't generally support the death penalty because it's too easy to make mistakes that can't be undone.

To me, the value of death penalty with reprieve is that it incentivizes people who might receive it to make full confessions of other crimes. The phrasing is that you get a life sentence if you are not found to have had committed other crimes within 2 years. The past tense here is important.

Say I get convicted of taking bribes and it looks like I might get a death sentence with reprieve. If I've also, say... Forged some documents in the past then there's an incentive for me to confess to forgery so that it can't be used to put me to death if someone finds out about it in the next two years. I'm already going to jail for the rest of my life, but if I confess to all my crimes at least I won't be executed

[–] [email protected] 0 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Apparently two-year reprieve means it gets lowered to a life-sebtence if he behaves well for the two years.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (3 children)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_sentence_with_reprieve

According to the criminal law […], it gives the death row inmate a two-year suspended sentence of the execution. The convicted person will be executed if found to have committed further crimes during the two years following the sentence; otherwise, the sentence is automatically reduced to life imprisonment or a fixed-term imprisonment if the person is found to have performed deeds of merit during the two years.
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This unique sentence is used to emphasize the seriousness of the crime and the mercy of the court, and has a centuries-old history in Chinese jurisprudence.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 9 months ago

Infinitely based

[–] [email protected] 0 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Damn, I like the vibe of billionaires being told "you're life is in our hands, fuck up and it is forfeit".

[–] [email protected] 0 points 9 months ago

kept on a leash

[–] [email protected] 0 points 9 months ago

Wow 🥰