(2) injection. During the execution, the prisoner was tied to a chair, and the forensic doctor injected drugs into the prisoner's arm through vein. The average prisoner will die of cardiac arrest within a few minutes.
The death penalty in China needs to be executed in the following ways:
(1) shoot by firing squad, that is, shoot a bullet from the back of the head of the condemned man with a rifle, and the condemned man takes a kneeling position when executing;
(2) injection. During the execution, the prisoner was tied to a chair, and the forensic doctor injected drugs into the prisoner's arm through vein. The average prisoner will die of cardiac arrest within a few minutes.
What is the applicable standard of death penalty?
The object of application of the death penalty is as follows:
1, a criminal with extremely serious crimes;
2. The death penalty is not applicable to people under the age of 18 at the time of the crime and women who are pregnant at the time of trial;
3. People who have reached the age of 75 at the time of trial generally do not apply the death penalty.
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Legal basis: Article 263 of the Criminal Procedure Law of People's Republic of China (PRC).
Before the execution of the death penalty, the people's court shall notify the people's procuratorate at the same level to send personnel to supervise on the spot.
The death penalty is executed by shooting or injection.
The death penalty can be executed in the execution ground or in a designated place of detention.
The judge directing the execution should identify the criminal, ask him if he has any last words or suicide notes, and then hand them over to the executor for execution. Before the execution, if it is found that there may be errors, the execution shall be suspended and submitted to the Supreme People's Court for ruling.
The execution of the death penalty should be announced, not made public.
After the death penalty is executed, the on-site clerk shall make a written record. The people's court delivering the execution shall report the execution of the death penalty to the Supreme People's Court.
After the execution of the death penalty is completed, the people's court that handed it over for execution shall notify the criminal's family.