Actually I was watching a special on China some time last year, on discovery, it showed a women Chinese police commander looking for dug smuggles, she caught a couple they tried them and she took them out back and shot them in the head. About a half days work!! The guy is in deep doo doo, singing working in the coal mine, singing working in the coal mine. LOL
Most Asian countries treat westerners pretty lightly in comparison to their own citizens or the nationals of other Asian nations. The young American who was caned (15 strokes I think) in Singapore for vandalizing cars got off too lightly according to most Asians.
While Chinese are almost always met with summary execution for drug crimes, usually occurring on the same day as the sentence, westerners usually end up with long terms in prison. Not that that is much relief; Asian prisons are terrible places.
One of my relatives was a poltical prisoner near Nanjing during the Cultural Revolution - no heat, contaminated water and about 1,000 calories worth of food per day. His crime? He was an old (age 68) math professor who didn’t see much value in Mao’s Little Red Book. In 12 years of imprisonment, he went from a “strapping” 130 pounds to 85 pounds.