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Biography

Shen Deyong, male, Han nationality, is a native of Xiushui of Jiangxi Province. He was born in 1954, joined the CPC and holds a postgraduate degree from China Politics and Law University.

Shen Deyong has had a prominent career in law, and specializes in the research of capital sentences. Mr. Shen has written more than ten books covering capital punishment, modification of the criminal appeal law, forceful execution in civil law and supervision over judgments. His work "Capital Sentence Comparison Research", published in 1992, was the first specialized work on the subject. Shen has spent his career at the Jiangxi High-Rank People's Court, and in the late 1990s he served as the Court's deputy president.

In 2017, he became a member of the 19th CPC Central Committee.