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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