The penal system in China is mostly composed of an administrative detention system and a judicial incarceration system. As of 2020, it is estimated that 1.7 million people had been incarcerated in China, which is the second-highest prison population after the United States. However, accounting the absolute prisoner numbers into China's enormous population base of 1.4 billion, the country's per-capita incarceration rate is relatively low at 121 per 100,000 of the national population. China also retained the use of death penalty with the approval right reserved to the Supreme People's Court, and there is a system of death penalty with reprieve where the sentence is suspended unless the convicted commits another major crime within two years while detained. There are discussion urging increase