Moves to cut down executions

Fewer crimes to carry death penalty

Beijing - Top legislators are revising the country's Criminal Law to limit the offences that carry the death penalty, as part of major efforts to further reduce the use of capital punishment.

A source with the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress (NPC), the country's top legislature, told China Daily on Friday that a draft revision will be submitted to the committee's bi-monthly meeting in August.