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Emperor Cheng was a ruler.
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BC 20 成帝鴻嘉元年
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Book of Han, Chapter 25Volume 23: Treatise on Punishment and Law · 3 passages
至成帝鴻嘉元年，定令：「年未滿七歲，賊鬥殺人及犯殊死者，上請廷尉以聞，得減死。」
In the first year of Emperor Cheng's Hongjia era, an order was fixed: 'When someone not yet seven years old kills a person in robbery or fighting, or commits an offense deserving exceptional death, submit the case to the Commandant of Justice for report, and the death penalty may be reduced.'
今漢道至盛，歷世二百餘載，考自昭、宣、元、成、哀、平六世之間，斷獄殊死，率歲千餘口而一人，耐罪上至右止，三倍有餘。
The Han way had now flourished for more than two hundred years. Across the six reigns of Emperor Zhao, Emperor Xuan, Emperor Yuan, Emperor Cheng, Emperor Ai, and Emperor Ping, capital cases ending in death averaged a little more than one person in every thousand each year; sentences ranging from shaving punishment to amputation of the right foot were more than three times as numerous.
以口率計，斷獄少於成、哀之間什八，可謂清矣。
On a per capita basis, adjudicated criminal cases were less than two-tenths as numerous as during the reigns of Emperor Cheng and Emperor Ai; the administration could be called clear.