According to common information, relatives of the inhabitants of China, sentenced to execution through execution, receive an account in the equivalent of the value of one or two bullets. We checked whether this is so.

Stories about the severity of the judicial system in China have long become legendary. Often in such stories it is reported about a penny score for a bullet that supposedly comes to the family of an executed person. Here's what he writes about it "Kommersant": “An article of expenses on the death executions of the country, as a rule, is not disclosed. However, we are talking about significant costs. By the way, China found a way out of the situation. There, the execution of the verdict is paid by relatives of convicts. Moreover, the score for the used bullets is sent by mail. ”

"Echo of Moscow”(2009) adds some details:“ It is curious that the property of corrupt officials in China confiscates, and the family is sent by the post office by 8 yuan, approximately 36 rubles. This is a two bullet account. ”

But "Arguments and facts"(2009) and Yekaterinburg"Oblgazeta"(2021) they even call specific sacrifices:“ They even sentenced the vice-mayor of Beijing Liuhua, who received a bribe of $ 2 million ”and“ ... an account with 8 yuan (93.5 rubles) for two bullets that shot him. Literally last week, the court in the Tianjin executed the ex-chairman of the state-owned Asset Management of China Huarong Lai Xiaomin ... ”

But most outside of China (and in the very Middle Kingdom) is known The story of Lin Zhao -36-year-old poetess, executed in 1968 for criticism of Mao Zedong and the party lines. It is noted that the line of Lin did not know about her death until the official recovered from her mother a fee for a bullet spent on execution.

It should be noted that China is undergoing an extremely closed policy of lighting the penitentiary system, and there are no official details about such a board today (if it is practiced). Moreover, Attempts Users to find out the details of the inhabitants of China were unsuccessful - over several years, most of those who responded on the Quore website either did not know about such practice or denied it. Some generally cast doubt on the personality of Dissime Lin Zhao, others noted that with the current quantity The death penalty (from 6500 in 2007 to 2400 in 2013, some of them - through a deadly injection) The costs of a bullet of several dozen cents do not at all make up at least a slightly noticeable column in the budget and their compensation is illogical. Like, then for the power of convicts, you would need to take a fee, because these are much more tangible figures.

Nevertheless, the history of specific people is difficult to hide, in particular, information about the fate of Lin Zhao - a cult figure for modern China. The Christian, who, even in prison - blood - continued to write the texts denouncing Mao, was posthumously rehabilitated in 1981. And although the authorities still keep the circumstances of her case under the head of the “secret”, how many details have leaked from the moment of rehabilitation. As it turned out, on the afternoon of May 1, 1968, a policeman entered the house where Mother Lin Zhao lived. He said that the prisoner was executed, and demanded to pay for expenses in the amount of 5 fan (that is, 0.05 yuan). Later, relatives learned that the execution took place on April 29. In 2005, the author’s film “In Search of the Soul of Lin Zhao” was released, which included Audio recording The story of the martyr’s sister is about this.

From another source, biographical research of Xi Lyan "Bloody letters"(University of Duke, USA, 2018), you can learn about the attitude of Lin Zhao to such practice (it turns out that the activist was not her first victim). In particular, in 1965, a brave woman wrote a letter to the editorial office of the main Chinese newspaper Zhenmin Zibao. She called the price of the bullet rather low, and the shooting itself - "in a simple way to die and bleed in front of people in broad daylight." It also says that the collection of debt for a bullet during the Cultural Revolution in China was of great importance for revolutionaries. In particular, examples of such actions are given in relation to other residents of Shanghai - counter -revolutionary Liu Weinhway (March 1967) and conductor of a local symphony orchestra Liu Hongen (April 1968). Moreover, the information about such a norm was confirmed by the person who worked as a security guard in the Shanghai Prison of Tilankiao, which contained Lin Zhao. They denied the fact of the collection only in the Shanghai Supreme People’s Court (where the verdict was sentenced), but they could not vouch for the actions of other services, in particular the local police.

So, we can say that the compensation for the cost of the shooting bullet was the usual business in China of the time of the cultural revolution (1966-1976). But it is interesting to know how it was later-from the 1980s to the present day. And practice, it turns out, continued. In 1987 a newspaper Los Angeles Times Even brought a new tariff for a firing bullet - 27 Fanny.

In the report of the famous human rights organization Human Rights Watch for August 1994 It was saidthat often executed organs are used for transplantation without the consent of the owners and their closest relatives. In some cases, relatives receive from the state a proposal to give the authorities for transplantation for a special fee (from hundreds to thousands of yuan), however, in case of refusal, they are presented with a huge account for all expenses, "including power, maintenance, cremation and even a bullet (about 6 cents)."

Next, it is necessary to highlight an important milestone. After the law on deadly injection as a voluntary alternative to the pool was adopted in 1997 in China, many The convicts began to choose the first option - painless and fast. Therefore, the very practice of executions began to lose distribution. At the same time, another authoritative human rights organization Amnesty International celebratedthat the public’s property becomes only a small share of statistics on executions - the rest of the cases are kept secret.

November 28, 2006 was executed Chen Tao is a participant in folk protests in the province of Sichuan, who was accused of intentionally killing a policeman. As many wrote Sources, the father of executed then presented an account in 50 yuan (about $ 6). News sites and forums provide several more names of the victims of the “Account for a bullet” in the zero years.

In 2009, Chinese newspapers They wrotethat the government covers 700 yuan (about $ 95) for each execution, and the deadly injection was provided by the Higher People's Courts for free. IN book 2010 “The death penalty in China: history, legislation and modern practice” nothing is said about the score for the bullet, but it is noted that the deadly injection at that time was already dominant from two possible methods of execution. Both information suggest that the “score by the bullet” at that time was used, then rarely.

Indeed, if you look into the sources of recent years, then this point of view is confirmed. In 2020, the fact that practice has gone the past, noted the popular Chinese portal 163.com. This was confirmed by other sources 2016 And 2018 years.

Thus, with a high degree of probability, it can be argued that at present, the practice of setting an account for a shot bullet in China is not distributed. At the same time, it existed at the beginning of the 21st century.