law - Supreme court puts death penalty on the agenda

State media have taken a rather aggressive approach in favor of revamping China's current practise on the death penalty. China tops every black list on human rights, because of the thousands of executions that take place each year. Also the reasons for execution vary very much from province to province and is depending on criteria of the local judges, writes the official news agency Xinhua today.
Officially each capital punishment has to be approved by the Supreme Court, but in a crack down on crime that provision was made invalid in 1983. The plan is now to return to the old situation. The death penalty is already for years under discussion, but also started to show up in the official media at the end of last year.
Today's Xinhua's dispatch is extremely critical, a wording that could come directly from press releases of Amnesty International:

As different courts and judges may have different criteria in applying death sentences, it is likely that a criminal sentenced to death in one province might
receive a different sentence in another.
That is not justice as we understand it.
The anticipated change regarding death sentences is not a simple return of power to the Supreme Court. It represents a deeper understanding of the spirit of modern jurisprudence.