1, sentenced to death and executed within one week. After hearing a case, the court or procuratorate judges that the criminal suspect in a criminal case needs to be executed, and generally makes a public judgment. Once this criminal punishment is decided, the subject of the crime will be executed within seven days.
2. Legal basis: Article 48 of the Criminal Law of People's Republic of China (PRC).
The applicable objects and approval procedures of death penalty and death sentence with a reprieve are only applicable to criminals who have committed extremely serious crimes. For criminals who should be sentenced to death, if they do not have to be executed immediately, they can be sentenced to death with a two-year suspension.
The death penalty shall be submitted to the Supreme People's Court for approval, except for those sentenced by the Supreme People's Court according to law. If the death penalty is suspended, it may be decided or approved by a higher people's court.
Article 49
Restrictions on the object of application of the death penalty The death penalty is not applicable to people who are under the age of 18 and women who are pregnant at the time of trial.
The death penalty does not apply to people who have reached the age of 75 at the time of trial, except those who cause death by particularly cruel means.
Second, what is the charge of the death penalty?
The crimes for which the death penalty is imposed are as follows:
1, arson;
2. Crime of damaging vehicles;
3. Crime of hijacking aircraft;
4. The crime of illegally manufacturing, trading, transporting, mailing and storing guns, ammunition and explosives;
5. Crime of stealing or robbing guns, ammunition, explosives and dangerous substances;
6. Crime of producing and selling counterfeit drugs;
7. The crime of intentional homicide;
8. Crime of intentional injury;
9. rape;
10, the crime of kidnapping;
1 1, crime of trafficking in women and children.