"This is a country where 99.9 percent of suspects are found guilty. Where authorities put to death more convicted criminals each year than the rest of the world’s countries combined."
"With criticism accumulating, authorities issued a
new policy requiring the Supreme People’s Court to review all death
sentences. That saved Nian’s life in 2010, when the court granted him
another retrial. Revisions to criminal procedure
last year also allowed Nian’s lawyers for the first time to question
police in court and call independent forensic scientists as witnesses.
Those new avenues gave Zhang a chance to attack the forced confession and undermine key evidence against Nian."
- Read the entire article to find out what has happened to Nian Bin.
- Here is another article , "China's Death-Penalty Debate," by LIJIA ZHANG from Dec. 29, 2014 from the New York Times about China's changing policy.
