Posted on 12/28/2009 8:26:07 PM PST by Steelfish
It would be barbaric if 10’s of thousands were executed for it. But it serves as a HUGE deterrent in those countries that have adopted it. Think about it. The two years I lived in Asia(Singapore/Malaysia) I never worried about doing business with a druggie. Here in the USA, it is a constant concern, not only with employees, but business associates too.
I have seen footage of Chinese executions, they are not a pleasant thing to watch.
The condemned are slightly drugged to keep them calm, then taken out in a line and forced to their knees with their hands bound behind them. They are leaned forward while a soldier places his AK-47 directly in the center of the back of his head pointing upward, right where the spine meets the skull. The order is given, and the soldier pulls the trigger and jumps back fast to keep the splatter from hitting him.
The family is then given the bill for the cost of the bullet used to kill their relative. As I said, it was quite gruesome to watch, but it is more humane imho than the electric chair or gas chamber is, at least it’s a lot faster.
Have these people never heard of the Opium Wars? It’s bad enough for anyone to smuggle heroin into China, but for a Briton to do it? From China’s viewpoint, he deserves the death penalty.
He’s dead, Jim.
I can’t complain about that one - I thought we were on page 2, and it is a massively shocking pic. can find by google images for dead terrorist
......on his dreams to record a pop song for world peace....
The song was entitled “Rachel Corrie’s Song”
Reminds me of that Chinese Christmas CD I bought last year, “Hung for the Holidays.”
>> He’s dead, Jim. <<
He is still alive, well the parts of him that are worth something on the organ market....
That's a laugh. Shooting someone in the head is just as humane as lethal injection. Both are painless and shooting is instantaneous, lethal injection takes a while. The only difference is shooting is messier than injection, otherwise they are both "humane".
“British” man eh... I wonder if he requested bangers and mash for his last meal? Hehe!
>> Pgh, even the family doesn’t deny he did the crime.
They just made up some insane story to say he was “tricked” into carrying heroin into the country so he could become a big music star.
The family provided no documentation proving mental illness or a family history of such either.
Frankly, I don’t like China. But, in this case, how could anyone believe the family at all when they don’t even deny the charges????
Seriously. <<
If you want to go to an Asian country (and remain safe), go to Japan or South Korea, otherwise, stay home.
Sadly, the only people who believe in “compassion” from China are the American people.
I guess these people found out the hard way that the Red Chinese do not mess around...
Is this Bob Dylan?
I’m sure the family will fall all over themselves to pay the bill.
IMO, Heroin smuggling isn’t a capital crime, but it’s their country.
Ever seen up close and personal what heroin does to people who get hooked on it?
I have no problem with it, Chinese laws on this are well known, you get caught and you face death. This guy had almost nine pounds of the stuff on him, he isn’t a junkie but someone on the other end who profits from them getting hooked. Too bad, so sad, I won’t shed a tear for him.
Well, now he's been cured.
Akmal Shaikh. He was the first European citizen executed in China in half a century.
First Euro citizen? Akmal? executed in China?
This sounds like something written from some parallel universe.
The usual way.
Microscopic robotic doberman pinschers with lobster claws that ended in running chainsaws were poured down his throat, in a solution of lava, lye, and rat poison. Using 200,000 volt probes up his butt, the robotic doberman pinschers were ordered to burrow to his skin where they began stripping his skin off and pouring salt onto the freshly exposed nerves, which they rubbed in with tiny little belt sanders that when the sanders were done, fired little tiny bullets into his eyes which popped like grapes, then the little robotic doberman pinschers used microwaves on him until he became a ZOMBIE.
You know, a peaceful execution.
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