law - Death penalty under review

The BBC tells (via China Digital News) that a major change in the system of death penalties might occur in China. With many thousands of executions each year, China tops all the bad-boys' lists of human rights organizations, just after the United States, for its record number of death penalties.
In the reviewed law, all capital punishments could be reviewed by the Supreme Court. That would likely be a step to a stiff reduction of the death penalty. Experts are already for some years quite openly challenging the dealth penalty in China, especially on such a large scale.