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China struggles with drunk driving sentencing

By Douglas A. Berman

As one who is always concerned with the US approach to sentencing drunk driving, I was intrigued to see this AP story from China concerning that country's struggle with this crime and effective punishments.  Here are excerpts from the piece: An appeals court in China overturned the death penalty Tuesday in a drunk driving case, sentencing the defendant instead to life imprisonment.  Sun Weiming, 30, was sentenced to death after being convicted for a fatal accident last December that killed four people and injured another in southwestern Chengdu.  It was reportedly the first time a death penalty had been given in a drunk driving case in China.... His original sentence was made amid a two-month nationwide crackdown against drink-driving launched in August following a series of fatal accidents involving pedestrians and drunk drivers...continue to full post

Full post as published by Sentencing Law and Policy on September 08, 2009 (boomark / email).