Beijing High Court will review Wang case death sentence, pending appeal expired

The original vice president of the Wang in the former deputy governor of the eve of the appeal expired, the death sentence will be reviewed by the Beijing High Court. The court found that Wangyi constituted the crime of bribery April 15, Wang was found guilty of bribery 11.96 million yuan, the amount of bribery is large, has violated the integrity of national public officials, constitute bribery crime. But on trial, the guilty plea was good, the death sentence was suspended for two years. After the verdict, Wang said "think again" about whether or not to appeal. The Code of Criminal Procedure stipulates that an appeal against a judgment of first instance may be appealed within 10th after the sentence is received.　　　　Wang April 15, the appeal expires on 25th, 25th for Sunday, according to the law, the last day of appeal postponed to 26th. "The death sentence should be in his expectation" it is understood that Wang 26th has not appealed. His lawyer said that Wang obedience to the first instance judgment, not only recognized the facts of the judgment, but also recognized the sentence. Before Wang, more than his bribery amount of corrupt officials are sentenced to life imprisonment or reprieve, Wang's reprieve should also be expected in his. Although the death sentence is a life sentence, the difference is not very big compared with that of free sentence. Two years from the effective date of the death sentence, if there is no intentional crime, it must be reduced to life imprisonment, if there is a significant meritorious effect, can also be reduced to 15 years or less than 20 years of imprisonment. and sentenced to life imprisonment, in the confession of the law, the education and transformation process, there is repentance meritorious performance can be commuted.　　In practice, the "test period" of life imprisonment is usually two years. According to the Code of Criminal Procedure, although Wang has not appealed, the death sentence is still not in effect, the Beijing High Court will review the facts and penalties of the death sentence. The review of Beijing High Court has 3 kinds of results, one is that the facts and penalties are correct, to be approved; second, it is considered that the penalty is too heavy, direct revision, the third is that the facts are not clear, sent back to the retrial.