Posted on 07/02/2013 1:06:08 AM PDT by TexGrill
The Filipino woman who was sentenced to die for carrying six kilos of heroin into China will be executed anytime today, according to Vice President Jejomar Binay.
The condemned woman’s family talked to her for the last time on Monday, although they were not informed that she will be put to death today.
The Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) said the Filipino consul-general in China expects the sentence to be carried out between now and July 3.
China’s Supreme People’s Court upheld the decision of a lower court against the 35-year-old woman. The Chinese criminal code states that bringing in more than 50 grams of illegal drugs to the country is punishable by death.
In 2011, three Filipinos—Ramon Credo, Sally Ordinario-Villanueva and Elizabeth Batain—were executed through lethal injection despite appeals from the Philippine government.
The Filipina whose execution was set today is one of two Filipinos arrested in a province near Shanghai in January 2011.
She entered Shanghai as a tourist.
The Vice President called for prayers for the woman, saying a miracle may yet spare her life.
“Let us continue praying that China will grant our appeal to postpone the execution. The President has asked that her sentenced be lowered to life imprisonment,” Binay said in a statement in Filipino.
The Chinese government on Saturday did not allow the Vice President to go to China to personally appeal for the life of the Filipina.
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It wasn’t too long ago that a couple of Japanese citizens found out the hard way that China is dead level serious about what happens when you get caught running drugs.
Ditto Singapore.
Ditto Thailand.
And yet this kind of thing never gets taken into account when discussing the high incarcertion levels in the US. Pretty much everything that’s illegal in the US is illegal in China, plus a bunch more. Chinese aren’t noticeably more law-abiding. The difference is that so many crimes which carry short prison sentences in the US carry the death penalty in China.
why on earth would any civilized person travel to China?
Don’t do drugs.
why on earth would any civilized person travel to China?
Civilized people don’t carry 6 kilos of heroin. That’s an anti civilization act.
that too is true
Her organs will be out before her heart stops beating and sold before the body is cold.
No sympathy from me. We need the same law.
No sympathy from me.
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Not so sure that death wouldn’t be a better alternate than life without parole in a Chinese ‘life without parole’ prison.
Give me a few books, (maybe) a computer etal—or something to keep the mind stimulated and I could take the LWOP but ‘deny’ me that and may as well do the deed.
So, generally speaking, LWOP would be WORSE for me than being executed.
Of course I would be the ONLY innocent person on ‘death row’ as everyone else would surely be guilty.
Problem is EVERYONE has that exact thought, guilty or innocent.
Freedomfiter1 did not answer your question. Why indeed would anyone want to go to China?
Ditto Saudi Arabia and Indonesia...........
a Chinese teacher at our school wanted to take the students there and I said absolutely not, no child of mine will be sent into a Communist country. The trip never happened. May have been a different story if they wanted to go to Taiwan.
>>>Saudi Arabia<<<
Not a best example. I heard they behead for street racing and blasphemy too.
>>>a Chinese teacher at our school wanted to take the students there and I said absolutely not, no child of mine will be sent into a Communist country. The trip never happened. May have been a different story if they wanted to go to Taiwan.<<<
China is not a communist country. They are commies in name only - CINO. China is certainly not a free republic but US is more Soviet in many terms.
I think they are more like nazy or something, not commie.
>>>Saudi Arabia<<<
Not a best example. I heard they behead for street racing and blasphemy too.
Saying bad things about Mao is not a good thing to do in China either...
Thus, no legal consequences probably.
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