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China's highest court to order provinces to retry death sentences

China's Supreme People's Court (SPC) will send back cases involving death sentence to provincial courts for retrial if it finds errors in judgement, instead of directly changing the sentence, according to a regulation released by the SPC Tuesday. ...full story at Xinhua

from Xinhua on Wed, Feb 28 2007

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