Posted on 06/27/2006 9:56:42 AM PDT by dead
BEIJING - China has executed at least 27 people for drug trafficking and sentenced up to 12 others to death for the same offence to mark international anti-drug day on June 26, state press reported.
In southern Kunming city on Monday, 10 convicted drug traffickers were paraded in front of the public before being sent to execution grounds where their death sentences were carried out, the Yunnan Daily reported.
"As Kunming is very close to the golden triangle, our city has become the battleground in our nation's war against drugs," the paper quoted Vice Mayor Tian Yunxiang as saying at the rally.
"The people of our city should actively participate in the war against drugs and help the police catch suspected drug traffickers."
The golden triangle is one of the world's most productive poppy growing regions bordering Myanmar, Laos and Thailand, all countries that neighbour China's Yunnan province.
Also on Monday, four other drug traffickers were put to death in Yunnan's Xishuangbanna near the border with Laos, while three were executed in Chongqing municipality north of Yunnan, local press reports said.
Five drug traffickers were also executed in Hangzhou city, capital of eastern China's Zhejiang province, Shanghai's Oriental Morning Post reported.
On Monday, Xinhua news agency reported four traffickers were executed in eastern Jiangsu province, while one drug trafficker was executed in southern Guangdong province on June 23.
Meanwhile courts throughout China sentenced at least 12 people to death at trials that were also held on Monday, with three of the convicted given two year reprieves on their execution, local press reports said.
The United Nation's has named June 26 as the International Day against Drug Abuse and Illicit Trafficking in an effort to bring more awareness to the dangers of illegal drugs.
Last week Beijing announced illicit drug use was on the rise in China, with international cartels flooding the nation with heroin as well as new synthetic drugs.
In 2005 police investigated 1,500 drug trafficking gangs, destroyed 34 drug laboratories and seized 6.9 tons of heroin, 5.5 tons of methamphetamine, 2.3 tons of opium and 2.34 million tablets of ecstasy, the government said.
China executes more convicted criminals every year than the rest of the world combined, with Chinese legal scholars estimating that at least 10,000 people are put to death annually. The actual number remains a state secret.
Sapa-AFP
absolute certainty if you get caught...
I am for immediate death sentence to drug traffickers..
Yeay!!I mean BOOOOO!!..er...nevermind.
We have over a half million people in prisons for drug offenses. Coddling prisons, I guess.
China executes them in great numbers, yet judging from the numbers presented in the article - it sounds like they're fighting a losing battle as well.
Maybe if they (and us, of course) increase the executions ten fold or a hundred fold we can finally get people to restrict their consumption to government approved substances.
Yeah, Randy "Duke" Cunningham was very pro-death penalty for drug dealers, too. Well, that is, until his son was caught smuggling 400 lbs. of marijuana into the country in a twin-engine airplane.
"anti-drug day"
soon to come:
"the great smoke-out day" - 10 smokers will have their heads ventilated in a messy way.
"excercise for health day" - A dozen fatties will be hung with an industrial crane
"take your kid to work day" - but only if it's an unwanted female baby.
Won't stop a darn thing. Another just takes their place. As long as there is a monetary reward to be had, risk takers will continue. The demand must be curbed, and the traffickers will stop. Or just legalize it all...........
And if you have no connections with the Communist authorities. Somehow, I don't think the kids of Party Officials will get the same treatment.
"I am for immediate death sentence to drug traffickers.."
Half a million in prison after they are put on withdrawer programs that waist millions of tax money. They are coddled no doubt.
In travelling to India four times in the last six years, I have stopped for refuels and changeovers in Taipei (Taiwan) and Kuala Lumpur (Malaysia). One of the last things you hear from the flight crew, and one of the first things you see when you walk through the ramp door into the terminal, is this:
DRUG TRAFFICKING IS PUNISHABLE BY DEATH
Or
DRUG TRAFFICKING CARRIES A MANDATORY SENTENCE OF DEATH
they get executed for drugs?!!!
wow!
how many strikes before they are out?
I see China is living in the dark ages still... We are no different... the war on drugs is hopeless, the only way to beat it is to legalize drugs... crazy as it sounds, government tax revenue could pay for treatment and education awareness... and save a ton of money in prisons.
"You tell 'em! Who needs a trial, eh? Just line 'em up and shoot 'em, eh? Then we'd be keeping up with the Communist Chinese justice system, eh?
Yeah...you tell 'em!"
This coming from somebody who wrote that he opposes the death penalty.
I'm sure they were all tissue typed first.
Starting with the folks at Phillip Morris, Anheuser-Busch, and Folger's?
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