2016 Articles
Legal and Political Rights Advocacy in Wrongful Conviction Death Penalty Cases in China: A Study of the Leping Case of Injustice
The problem of wrongful conviction has become more widely acknowledged in China today. Drawing on a study of the Leping case of injustice, in which four defendants were convicted of rape and murder and sentenced to death for a crime they had not committed, this article discusses how the efforts of correcting it meet a deadlock in China’s judicial system, and how, in this circumstance, Chinese civil society initiates and runs a network advocacy aiming at breaking the deadlock and advancing the correction.
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- Columbia Journal of Asian Law
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- https://doi.org/10.7916/cjal.v29i2.3356
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- https://journals.library.columbia.edu/index.php/cjal/article/view/3356
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- May 23, 2025