China overturns tycoon's death sentence
Posted on May 07 , 2012 • 1 Comments
China's high court overturned the death sentence on a former tycoon Friday, in a case that caused an uproar over the nation's use of capital punishment for economic crimes.
The State Supreme Court ordered the high court in eastern China's Zhejiang province to retry the case of Wu Ying.
It recommended that any death sentence should come with a two year reprieve -- a penalty almost always commuted to life in prison.
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