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To: Mr. K
Xinhua did not say how the four were killed. China, which executes more criminals than the rest of the world combined, usually puts inmates to death with a gunshot to the back of the head but has recently experimented with lethal injections.

With capitalism running rampant over there, they need to look at the unit costs of bullets and the "injectables."

The precise number of people executed for all crimes in China is a state secret. Reports range from 5,000 to 10,000 a year, many for murder, but they have also been killed for corruption and crimes as minor as bottom-pinching.

Whoa!

27 posted on 09/14/2004 1:02:34 PM PDT by boknows
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To: boknows

=== China, which executes more criminals than the rest of the world combined,

Kinda like Florida and Texas.


=== With capitalism running rampant over there, they need to look at the unit costs of bullets and the "injectables."

Actually, they're more concerned with perfecting a "botched" execution such that the prisoner's still alive when his organs are removed for sale.

China's got capitalism down cold.


42 posted on 09/14/2004 2:00:58 PM PDT by Askel5 († Cooperatio voluntaria ad suicidium est legi morali contraria. †)
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