Bin Liang

editor of "The Death Penalty in China: Policy, Practice and Reform"

November 4, 2015

Bin Liang teaches at Oklahoma State University. He is the author of four books, "The Changing Chinese Legal System, 1978 – Present: Centralization of Power and Rationalization of the Legal System" (2008) with Routledge, "China's Drug Practices and Policies: Regulating Controlled Substances in a Global Context" (2009, coauthored) with Ashgate, "Jurisprudence" (2012, co-edited, in Chinese) with Renmin University of China Press, and "The Death Penalty in China: Policy, Practice and Reform" (2016, co-edited) with Columbia University Press. As China leads the world in both numbers of death sentences and executions, its practice of the death penalty has increasingly become the attention of the general public. This collection examines China's death penalty practice within the dramatically changing social, political and legal context of China and under the influence of the global abolition movement. Based on interdisciplinary and comparative approaches, this collection covers (1) dominant theories and policies regarding China's death penalty law and practice over time; (2) characteristics of the China's current death penalty practices based on empirical data; and (3) potential challenges and reforms. This collection not only provides the most up-to-date information with regard to China's practice of the death penalty, but also covers a number of understudied topics in this field such as the roles played by public opinion and the media in the (re)shaping of the death penalty practice in China.

As the first edited English book on China's death penalty, this volume is a collective effort by scholars and experts from five countries and four continents (Europe, Australia, Japan, the United States, and China). The diverse background of contributors of this collection offers different perspectives and lends validity and reliability to this project.

URL: https://library.okstate.edu/news/celebratingbooks/2016-honorees/bin-liang

Last Updated: 12 January 2022