Abstract
China adopted the life imprisonment without parole and commutation in Ninth Amendment in 2015 for crimes of corruption and bribery. This new addition is taken as a layer of existing mechanism of suspended death penalty rather a new distinct punishment. The article discusses the nature and mode of execution of the new punishment and debate the anomaly of Chinese life imprisonment without parole and commutation in the light of different perspectives. The article concludes that the perspective given by Chinese scholars do not satisfy the procedural penal logic rather a counter perspective given by author contends it an irregular kind of punishment and require changes to streamline the procedural confusion of punishment.