He Jiahong, Back From the Dead: Wrongful Convictions and Criminal Justice in China

Authors

Stanley B. Lubman, Columbia Law School

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

2016

Abstract

1In 1987, Teng Xingshan was sentenced to death for raping a woman and dismembering her body; wrongfully convicted, he was executed in 1989 – but in 1992 the “victim” returned home, and Teng was exonerated in 2005. His case is only one among numerous other tragic wrongful convictions discussed in Back From the Dead: Wrongful Convictions and Criminal Justice in China, by Professor He Jiahong (Renmin University Law School, Beijing). This book, the product of ten years of research, is a scholarly analysis of wrongful convictions that demonstrates deep system-wide flaws in China’s criminal justice system.

Disciplines

Criminal Law | Criminal Procedure | Law

Comments

Back From the Dead: Wrongful Convictions and Criminal Justice in China by He Jiahong, University of Hawai’i Press, 2016, xxvi, 236 pp.

Recommended Citation

Stanley B. Lubman, He Jiahong, Back From the Dead: Wrongful Convictions and Criminal Justice in China, 2016(4) China Persp. 92 (2016).
Available at: https://scholarship.law.columbia.edu/chinese_legal_studies/20