Views of Provisional Court Official: Weakness of the Kiangsu Commission; Criminals who Never can be Condemned Provisional Court officials at tribute the congestion in the municipal gaols to the increased number of criminals in Shanghai who are convicted in the Provisional Court.
Before the Rendition Agreement, certain classes of criminals were handed over to the Chinese authorities, but under the agreement only such criminals are handed over ay are to be executed. Neverthe. less, the following figures indicate why one class of criminals remains in the gaol Prisoners sentenced to death since the rendition Prisoners executed confirmation by the Incl Goverment.ss.ten 2 Death Sentences commuted 38
According to the Rendition Agreoment, the Kiangsu Provincial Government has the right to, review eases involving a death sentence. This agreement was made when Marshal Sun Chuan-fang controlled Kiangsu and the Shanghai area and when it was impossible to submit the cases to the Supreme Court in Peking. Although there is a Supreme Gourt in Nanking, it has not yet been possible to amend the agreement to brim such eases Defore a judicial authority, The Kiangsa Provincial Government is a Commission, most of the members which have neither the qualifiea~ tions nor the time to pass on Judicial cases. Such members us have a legal training ave regarded us unfriendly to the Provisional Court, because it was the Kiangsa Provincial Government. which a tempted to make changes in the court last year and failed. But even if this were not the ease, these men have no time to review all the fuses that come up from the Provisional Court because of the numer-fous other duties which devolve on them. Th: result is long delays.
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