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What is the penalty for theft in China?

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Theft is a felony in Turkey depending on circumstances you could receive up to 20 years of imprisonment and/ or labor and/or heavy fines. In China theft results in a minimum of 10 years imprisonment, life sentence, or even death penalty.

Accordingly, what is the legal system in China?

The legal system of the People's Republic of China (PRC) is defined by the government as a “socialist legal system.” Despite the official definition, however, China's legal system is based primarily on the model of Civil Law. The Constitution of the People's Republic of China is the highest law within China.

Is there police in China?

While there are no municipal government police departments, municipalities in China have uniformed, but unarmed inspection officers under the command of each municipalities' "City Urban Administrative and Law Enforcement Bureau". More commonly known as "Chengguan", the Chinese abbreviation of the term.

Is China common law or civil law?

Civil law today, in theory, is interpreted rather than developed or made by judges. Only legislative enactments (rather than legal precedents, as in common law) are considered legally binding. Chinese law: a mixture of civil law and socialist law in use in the People's Republic of China.

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What crimes are punishable by death in the US?

The capital offenses include espionage, treason, and death resulting from aircraft hijacking. However, they mostly consist of various forms of murder such as murder committed during a drug-related drive-by shooting, murder during a kidnapping, murder for hire, and genocide.

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What is punishable by death in Iran?

Death sentences in Iran are, in theory, legal for many different crimes, such as armed robbery, treason, espionage, murder, certain military offenses, drug trafficking, rape, pedophilia, sodomy, sexual misconduct, incestuous relations, fornication, homosexuality, prostitution, plotting to overthrow the Islamic regime,

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How many states do not have the death penalty?

The death penalty is legal in 31 states and illegal in 19 states (and DC). The "legal" and "illegal" designations in the "Death Penalty Status" column are based on the US Department of Justice's "Capital Punishment" reports.

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Is death by firing squad legal in the United States?

The state abandoned firing squads in 2004 but now, it has returned as the backup option — partly because of a shortage of lethal injection drugs, the state's default execution method. Utah is now the only state in the U.S. that authorizes execution by firing squad.

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What death penalties are still used?

See also:
Lethal Injection.
Electrocution.
Gas Chamber.
Firing Squad.
Hanging.
Sources. R. Bohm, "Deathquest: An Introduction to the Theory and Practice of Capital Punishment in the United States," Anderson Publishing, 1999. W. Ecenbarger, "Perfecting Death: When the state kills it must do so humanely.

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Do any states still use hanging?

Eight states also allow electrocution (Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Kentucky, Oklahoma, South Carolina, Tennessee and Virginia). Three states allow the gas chamber (Arizona, Missouri, Wyoming) and three other states allow hanging (Delaware, New Hampshire and Washington).

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Is the electric chair still legal?

As of 2015, the only places in the world which still reserve the electric chair as an option for execution are the U.S. states of Alabama, Florida, South Carolina, Kentucky, Tennessee, and Virginia. (Arkansas and Oklahoma laws provide for its use should lethal injection ever be held to be unconstitutional.)

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When was the last execution by gas chamber?

California's gas chamber at San Quentin State Prison was converted to an execution chamber for lethal injection. As of 2010, the last person to be executed in the gas chamber was German national Walter LaGrand, sentenced to death before 1992, who was executed in Arizona on March 3, 1999.

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How long does it take to die by lethal injection?

Death is pronounced after cardiac activity stops. Death usually occurs within seven minutes, although, due to complications in finding a suitable vein, the whole procedure can take up to two hours, as was the case with the execution of Christopher Newton on May 24, 2007.

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What is the point of the gas chamber in basic training?

The gas chamber is a room that has a controlled concentration of CS (orto-chlorobenzylidene-malononitrile) gas, more commonly known as tear gas. Tear gas is the active ingredient in Mace™ and used for self defense and for riot control by the police.

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How long does it take to die in the electric chair?

It takes anywhere from 2 minutes to 15 minutes. The criminal receives a jolt of between 500 and 2000 volts for 30 seconds. The attending doctor waits for the body to cool after each jolt and checks to see if the heart is still beating.

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What was invented in 1881 by a dentist Alfred P Southwick?

Alfred P. Southwick. Alfred P. Southwick (1826–1898), was a steam-boat engineer, dentist and inventor from Buffalo, New York. He is credited with inventing the electric chair as a method of legal execution.

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When did we first get the electric chair?

William Kemmler was killed on August 6th, 1890. The electric chair was invented by employees at Thomas Alva Edison's works at West Orange, New Jersey in the late 1880s. The inventor's involvement has embarrassed many of his biographers and an entry for 'electric chair' in their indexes is a rarity.

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Who was the first person to get the death penalty?

1838 - Discretionary death penalty statutes enacted in Tennessee. 1847 - Michigan becomes the first state to abolish the death penalty for all crimes except treason. 1890- William Kemmler becomes first person executed by electrocution. Early 1900s - Beginning of the "Progressive Period" of reform in the United States.

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How many volts of electricity are used in the electric chair?

The prisoner is strapped into the electric chair at the wrists, waist, and ankles. An electrode is attached to the head and another to the leg. At least two jolts of an electrical current are applied for several minutes. An initial voltage of about 2,000 volts stops the heart and induces unconsciousness.

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Are electric chairs AC or DC?

The introduction of the electric chair was accompanied by a secret, and very high-level, war between the proponents of Direct Current (DC) electricity (Edison) and Alternating Current (AC) electricity (Westinghouse). The electric chairs used a thousand-or-so volts of AC to electrocute the prisoner.

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Is it painful to die by electrocution?

Pain is not due to electrocution. Real pain is due to the disastrous feeling ( brain zaps) of getting electrocution for the period from verdict announcement to its execution. Electrocution is frequently a grueling ordeal for observers.

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Is there police in China?

While there are no municipal government police departments, municipalities in China have uniformed, but unarmed inspection officers under the command of each municipalities' "City Urban Administrative and Law Enforcement Bureau". More commonly known as "Chengguan", the Chinese abbreviation of the term.

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What is the police number in China?

119 is recognized in China as the standard emergency telephone number for firefighters. Similar to Japan, the number for police is 110. Ambulance is available with the number 120.

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What is 112?

112 is the common emergency telephone number that can be dialed free of charge from most mobile telephones and, in some countries, fixed telephones in order to reach emergency services (ambulance, fire and rescue, police).

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