Legal basis: Criminal Law of People's Republic of China (PRC).
Article 232 Whoever intentionally kills shall be sentenced to death, life imprisonment or fixed-term imprisonment of not less than 10 years; If the circumstances are relatively minor, they shall be sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment of not less than three years but not more than ten years.
Article 26 A principal offender is one who organizes and leads a criminal group to engage in criminal activities or plays a major role in joint crimes. A relatively fixed criminal organization formed by three or more people committing crimes together is a criminal group. The ringleaders who organize and lead a criminal group shall be punished according to all the crimes committed by the group. Principal offenders other than those specified in the third paragraph shall be punished according to all the crimes they participated in, organized or directed.