Posted on 09/11/2016 11:10:54 PM PDT by Olog-hai
China says it intends for the death penalty to be used only on “a very small number of extremely serious criminal offenders.” […]
China is believed to execute more people than the rest of the world put together, but no longer does so for most nonviolent crimes.
China’s law allows for the death penalty for dozens of offenses, including treason, separatism, spying, arson, murder, rape, robbery and human trafficking. …
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It’s true. They mostly execute the innocent.
Corrupt public officials caught taking $1 million or more are executed. They for sure do not hesitate on that.
China is a vile communist country, ruled with an iron fist. One of the few things they got right is their criminal justice system.
Don't expect them to spare drug-traffickers. If they do, they will face severe backlash from public. China and most of S. East Asia historically had very bad experience with drug problems and many still do. Drug offense carries mandatory death sentence there. I hope so-called human right organization will stay out of this, and do not urge them to drop death sentence for drug traffickers.
On a percentage basis?
One of the biggest problems in southern china is narcotics addiction. Their rehab clinics are full. They are not immune.
Oh, I doubt that. Executing the innocent is not criminal justice.
The entire condemned block in San Quentin applauds you.
So corrupt public officials that are worth more than that are exempt?
Mao once owned cars such as the Mercedes-Benz 600 after all. Cost only about $158K in 2016 dollars when new.
Before we go down the road of misunderstanding each other, I don’t know what these condemned people in china were convicted of, nor the specific offenses. The death penaly, wielded by the state, has a number of disturbing consequences. But we, her in the good old US, have a backlog of people who deserve death, administered by the state on behalf of the victims. That’s just a fact.
Mao is dead. Be that way a long time. But, if they took more than $1 million the also get killed. The low limit on the death penalty for corruption is $1 million.
So you think that being a counterrevolutionary is a death penalty offense? e.g. believing in ownership of private property, the family, religion (especially Christianity)? Those can be trumped up to death-penalty status in Red China. I don’t think anyone in San Quentin stands for such things, to give your red herring some notice there.
“China is believed to execute more people than the rest of the world put together”
I thought that was supposed to be us.
Mao may be dead, but Hsi Chin-p’ing is not.
Since communism is inherently corrupt, how can one tell what corrupt behavior is over there?
Sounds like Texas needs to speed it up a notch.
No. Every person, to a person, who is sitting in San Quentin awaiting the needle or whatever, needs to be taken out tomorrow, and shot. That’s what I’m saying.
I’m aware of that. That’s building up to be one of many beneficial crises in order to try and induce a transition to a Maoist-like state where US values of freedom become capital offenses.
I certainly agree 100 percent there. I do believe in the principle of speedy justice according to Ecclesiastes 8:11.
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