Is the death penalty in China by injection or by shooting?

The person sentenced to death decides whether to shoot or inject according to the local court. You can have an injection or an injection. However, at present, photography is still the mainstay in China. Although the death penalty by injection is the development trend of death penalty in China, it needs professional and technical personnel, equipment and places, and most intermediate courts in China do not have such conditions. During the execution, if the injection execution conditions are met, the injection method is not available, and it is executed by shooting.

First, the execution procedure of the death penalty:

1. Before the execution of the death penalty, the people's court may allow criminals to meet their relatives or their close relatives to apply for meeting criminals.

2. Criminals handed over to the people's court for execution shall notify the people's procuratorate at the same level to send personnel to supervise on the spot three days before the delivery.

3. Before the execution of the death penalty, the judge directing the execution shall identify the criminal, that is, carefully check the name, gender, age, place of origin, basic criminal facts and other information of the executed person;

Ensure that the executed person is a death penalty criminal determined by the judgment or ruling, and prevent manslaughter. Also, ask the prisoner if he has any last words or suicide notes, make a record, and then give it to the executor for execution.

4. The execution of the death penalty shall be announced, and street processions or other degrading acts shall be prohibited.

5. After the execution of the death penalty, the forensic doctor shall verify that the criminal is indeed dead, and the on-site clerk shall make a written record.

Two. The procedures for probation and commutation are as follows:

1, inspection of prisoners.

2, put forward suggestions for commutation, prisons and other penalty enforcement agencies through the performance of criminals during their sentences, if approved.

Those who have shown repentance or rendered meritorious service and meet the conditions for commutation may put forward suggestions for commutation to the court according to law.

3. Commute the sentence as appropriate according to law. Discretionary commutation according to law means that the court metes out a sentence to a criminal according to his repentance or meritorious service.

Punishment.

Legal basis: Article 252 of the Criminal Procedure Law of People's Republic of China (PRC). Before the death penalty is delivered, the people's court shall notify the people's procuratorate at the same level to send personnel to be present for supervision. The death penalty is executed by shooting or injection. The death penalty can be executed in the execution ground or in a designated place of detention. The judge directing the execution should identify the criminal, ask him if he has any last words or suicide notes, and then hand them over to the executor for execution. Before the execution, if it is found that there may be errors, the execution shall be suspended and submitted to the Supreme People's Court for ruling. The execution of the death penalty should be announced, not made public. After the death penalty is executed, the on-site clerk shall make a written record. The people's court delivering the execution shall report the execution of the death penalty to the Supreme People's Court. After the execution of the death penalty is completed, the people's court that handed it over for execution shall notify the criminal's family.