There's a lot of assumptions in your statement. 1. That death penalty is an effective deterrent. 2. That social hacking would be tried as corruption, or even

There's a lot of assumptions in your statement. 1. That death penalty is an effective deterrent. 2. That social hacking would be tried as corruption, or even at a level of corruption for the death penalty. 3. That China doesn't have a corruption problem already regardless of the potential penalty. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corruption_in_China http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corruption_in_China (not saying this is the truth, just that you're making an assumption that not everyone agrees with)