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Recent reforms Last August, China eliminated the death penalty in cases involving nine different crimes including smuggling weapons or explosives, nuclear materials or fake currency, as well as counterfeiting currency. Financial fraud, organized prostitution, forced prostitution and obstructing the military in the course of their duty, as well as "spreading rumors and stirring up the masses in time of war" were also removed from the list of capital crimes.