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 The Chinese government is considering a reduction in the number of crimes eligible for capital punishment, part of a long-term trend that has seen a decline in executions, though China still leads the world in the number of people put to death annually. 
  
 The proposal, which was put before the Standing Committee of the National People’s Congress on Monday, would change the maximum punishment for nine crimes to life imprisonment, Xinhua, the state news agency, reported. The crimes include counterfeiting, fraudulent fund-raising, forcing others into prostitution, “obstructing a commander or a person on duty from performing his duties,” “fabricating rumors to mislead others during wartime,” and smuggling ammunition, counterfeit currency, nuclear materials or weapons, Xinhua said. 
  
 China now lists 55 crimes for which offenders can be executed. In 2011 it dropped the death penalty for 13 offenses. That move was seen as largely symbolic, as the crimes were generally nonviolent acts for which the death penalty was rarely used. But the move signaled a willingness on the part of the authorities to restrict capital punishment. 
  
  
  
 In 2007, China’s highest court, the Supreme People’s Court, began reviewing death penalty cases following a series of well-publicized, flawed convictions, including the 2005 case of She Xianglin, a man convicted of killing his missing wife, who later returned to her hometown alive. In June, the Supreme People’s Court overturned the death sentence for a woman convicted of murdering her abusive husband. 
  
 China is believed to have executed about 2,400 people last year, according to the Dui Hua Foundation, a San Francisco-based human rights group. The official totals are considered secret, so rights groups and legal experts can only make estimates based on published sentences and details released in Chinese media reports. The 2013 total was about three times the number of people executed in all the other countries of the world combined, but far lower than the total in 2002, when China executed about 12,000 people. 
  
 While public opinion in China regarding the death penalty isn’t well documented, it is believed to have general support. While the government has gradually decreased the number of crimes eligible for execution, most experts believe it is unlikely to eliminate capital punishment altogether, particularly for violent crimes or for official corruption. 
  
 Some of the crimes for which China is now considering dropping the death penalty have been the subject of high-profile controversies. Wu Ying, a wealthy businesswoman who was sentenced to death in 2009 for fraudulent fund-raising, had her sentence overturned in 2012 after widespread public criticism. 
  
 In June, two defendants accused of raping an 11-year-old girl and forcing her into prostitution had their death penalty overturned by the Supreme People’s Court, which questioned whether the sentence was appropriate for their crimes and sent it to a lower court for reconsideration. The girl’s mother, Tang Hui, had become famous in China for her efforts to see those responsible for her daughter’s abuse executed. She was sent to a labor camp in 2012 in an effort to silence her calls for their punishment. ||||| BEIJING China is considering trimming nine crimes from the list of offences punishable by death, state media said on Monday, as the ruling Communist Party considers broader reforms to the country's legal system. 
  
 Rights groups say China uses capital punishment more than any other country, raising public concern of irreversible miscarriages of justice. 
  
 A draft amendment to China's criminal law, which includes the use of the death penalty, was submitted for initial review to the country's National People's Congress, the official Xinhua news agency said. 
  
 Crimes that would be exempt from capital punishment under the amendment include "smuggling weapons, ammunition, nuclear materials or counterfeit currencies; counterfeiting currencies; raising funds by means of fraud; and arranging for or forcing another person to engage in prostitution", Xinhua said. 
  
 The crimes of "obstructing a commander or a person on duty from performing his duties" and "fabricating rumors to mislead others during wartime", are also under review, the news agency said. 
  
 Officials had previously said that China would review the application of the death penalty, which applies to 55 offences, including fraud and illegal money-lending. 
  
 China guards the number of people executed every year as state secrets. 
  
 The San Francisco-based Dui Hua Foundation, which seeks the release of political prisoners in China, estimated that 2,400 people were executed in 2013. By comparison, 39 people were executed in 2013 in the United States, according to the Death Penalty Information Center. 
  
 The reduction in death penalty crimes, however, is not expected to greatly reduce the number of executions per year, scholars have said. 
  
 The Communist Party, worried about rising social unrest and anger over land grabs, corruption and pollution unveiled legal reforms aimed at improving judicial independence at a key meeting last week. 
  
 The Party has stressed that it will remain in overall control of the judiciary, and despite the move to implement legal reforms, few analysts expect significant political change any time soon. 
  
 (Reporting by Michael Martina; Editing by Jeremy Laurence) |||||
Solution:
Good news for China's pimps, counterfeiters, and ammunition smugglers: Their crimes are among those that the government plans to stop punishing with death. A plan put before the National People's Congress yesterday eliminates the death penalty for nine non-violent offenses but still leaves 46 capital crimes on the books, reports the New York Times. The new maximum sentence for those offenses would be life. The San Francisco-based Dui Hua Foundation, a human rights group, estimates China executed at least 2,400 people last year, mostly for violent crimes, reports Reuters. That's far more executions than the rest of the world put together, but down from an estimated 12,000 in 2002. Three years ago, the death penalty was dropped for 13 offenses, including tax evasion and the smuggling of precious metals.