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China devises next five-year development
The National People's Congress (NPC) Standing Committee also voted to adopt an amendment to the Criminal Law which reduces the number of crimes punishable by death by 13 to 55. China's newly revised Criminal Law has reduced the number of crimes
Updated: 02/25/2011 03:05P
13 crimes exempted from death penalty
While exempting some convicts from execution, the law amendment imposes harsher punishments on crime gang heads, wage defaulters, offenders in food safety crimes and those convicted of forcefully removing human organs. Criminal offenders who are
Updated: 02/25/2011 03:05P
Legislation would put more restrictions on protests at funerals
Illinois law requires protesters to stay 200 feet from the entrance to a funeral home or cemetery, prohibits them from using threatening words or images, and forbids protests within 30 minutes of the start or end of the funeral.
Updated: 02/25/2011 02:48P
Death penalty dropped for 13 economic crimes
The NPC Standing Committee passed the amendment to the Criminal Law yesterday. The 13 crimes include forging and selling invoices to avoid taxes, smuggling cultural relics, rare animals and their products and precious metals such as gold and silver out
Updated: 02/25/2011 02:00P
Missouri City to offer citizen police/fire academy
The free, six-week program offers a behind-the-scenes view of the situations firefighters and police officers face on their jobs. Participants will receive instruction in traffic laws and criminal
Updated: 02/25/2011 01:26P
At McDonald's, Huckabee's 'lovin' it'
State governors may grant pardons for state criminal law crimes. In some states, the power is given to an appointed agency or board or to both in some hybrid arrangement. Maurice Clemmons is a suspect in a recent killing of 4 police officers in Seattle
Updated: 02/25/2011 12:38P
China scraps death for some crimes
An amendment to the nation's criminal law took 13 offenses off the list of 68 crimes punishable by death, the country's legislature said. "The 13 crimes that have been exempted from the death penalty are mainly economic and non-violent crimes,"
Updated: 02/25/2011 12:38P
Bill C-389 before Senate
Bill C-389, if written into law, would amend the Canadian Human Rights Act and the Criminal Code to include protection against discrimination and hate crime on the basis of gender identity and gender expression. Jan Lukas Buterman, with the Trans
Updated: 02/25/2011 12:33P
PPP to play senior ombudsman's role in Punjab: Dr. Babar Awan
25 (APP): China's newly revised Criminal Law has reduced the number of crimes punishable by death by 13 to 55.The Standing Committee of the National People's Congress (NPC) passed the amendment to the Criminal Law Friday at its bi-monthly session.
Updated: 02/25/2011 12:23P
China exempts 13 crimes from death penalty punishment
The Standing Committee of the National People's Congress (NPC) approved an amendment to the Criminal Law marking the first time that the crimes punishable with death penalty have been reduced since 1979. The 13 crimes exempted included smuggling
Updated: 02/25/2011 12:20P
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