death penalty

Correct me if I'm wrong, but wouldn't this guy normally have been taken out the back of the court and had a bullet put into his brain?

Shanghai F1 boss jailed for graft

Yu Zhifei was caught up in a wider corruption scandal

A sports magnate credited with bringing Formula One to China has been jailed for four years for corruption, according to Chinese media.

Yu Zhifei, ex-manager of the Shanghai International Circuit, was convicted of embezzling more than 1m yuan (£69,500; $137,500) during the late 1990s.

Not, of course, that I'm in any way endorsing the death penalty - I just seem to recall something recently about China stamping down on corruption by imposing the death penalty for even the smallest breaches. Maybe that only applies to relatively poor corrupt officials rather than the "magnates" that bribe them?