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DEATH PENALTY IN CHINA
CHAIR, BULLET, AND
STRANGLING
SHANGHAI, December 13. Decapitation, like many other ancient customs, will shortly be abolished under a Government decree, according to a Nanking • announcement heralding the introduction of the new criminal code. This provides for electrocution as the death penalty, except in the case of prisoners convicted of banditry, who will face firing squads, and others convicted of kidnapping, who will be strangled.
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Evening Post, Volume CXVI, Issue 143, 14 December 1933, Page 10
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72EXIT THE HEADSMAN Evening Post, Volume CXVI, Issue 143, 14 December 1933, Page 10
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