Law Change Would Mean No Early Release for Graft Convicts

(Beijing) – People convicted of corruption or bribery charges and who receive suspended death sentences will no longer be eligible for parole under a proposed legal amendment.

The draft amendment was recently submitted to the National People's Congress Standing Committee – the body that runs the legislature between its full annual meetings – for a third round of deliberation.

The proposed legislation, which appeared in October, aims to cut the number of crimes for which the death penalty is handed out.