On the charge of “sodomy”

Li Pengxin, a former senior official of the Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region, was sentenced to death with a two-year reprieve for accepting bribes totaling more than 822 million yuan ($112 million), according to a verdict on April 22, 2025.

A Chinese man convicted of fatally stabbing a 10-year-old Japanese schoolboy in Shenzhen, southern China, in September has been executed, a diplomatic source said on April 21, 2025.

A court has handed down the death penalty to a man for raping his daughter in Chuadanga.