Ten judicial issues that sparked online debate last year

1 Nie Shubin was pardoned 21 years after he was wrongly executed for rape and murder.

2 Xu Yuyu, 18, a student from Linyi, Shandong province, died of a heart attack after being cheated out of the money she planned to use for tuition fees. Her case went viral online and accelerated the release of legal guidelines to deal with telecom fraudsters.

3 It was announced that corrupt officials given suspended death sentences will spend the rest of their lives in prison without parole, one of the harshest punishments available under China's Criminal Law.