Why hasn't the wife killer Xu Guoli been executed?

The Higher People's Court of Zhejiang Province made a second-instance ruling on the murder of Xu Guoli's wife and upheld the original judgment. The court held that Xu Guoli's confession and objective evidence corroborated each other, and the evidence corroborated each other, reaching the standard of sufficient evidence. There are no inevitable contradictions and unexplained doubts, which proves that the process conforms to logic and experience. Moreover, its exposure does not constitute meritorious service, and the conviction and sentencing of the death penalty in the original trial are in line with the law.

Although Xu Guoli's wife-killing case has been ruled as final and valid, Xu Guoli will not be executed immediately. After being sentenced to death, there is a death penalty review procedure, and all the death sentences pronounced by Chinese courts are finally approved by the Supreme People's Court. In fact, the death penalty review procedure is also a unique independent supervision procedure for death penalty cases. To review death penalty cases, it is also necessary to form a collegial panel for review.

In other words, Xu Guoli is now upheld by the Zhejiang High Court, but it cannot be executed immediately, and it has to be submitted to the Supreme Court for approval. However, there is no specific approval period for this approval process at present, and the approval period depends on the specific circumstances of the case, and each case is different. After the approval of the Supreme Court, the President of the Supreme Court issues a death penalty execution order, which is generally executed by the intermediate court. After the Intermediate People's Court received the execution order, the criminal was really close to death, and the death penalty was executed within seven days.