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    SA woman executed in China

    A South African woman has been executed in China for smuggling drugs into that country, eNews reported on Monday.

    Janice Bronwyn Linden, 35, was executed by lethal injection.

    Linden, 35, from KwaZulu Natal, was caught in the Chinese city of Guangzhou carrying 3kg of crystal methamphetamine in November 2008.

    According to reports, Linden would only have been told of her execution this morning as is the practice of the Chinese government.

    Two of Linden's sisters were in China and were to be have been allowed an hour with her before she was put to death.

    Linden did not have children.

    On Sunday, the DA called on President Jacob Zuma to make a last-minute attempt to save Linden’s life.

    “We call on President Zuma to make a last-ditch attempt to have her sentence commuted. Our government cannot stand idly by while one of our citizens is executed on foreign shores,” said DA MP Stevens Mokgalapa.

    He said that although South African authorities had tried to intervene it was “clear that whatever our diplomats have done, it has not been enough to save Ms Linden's life”.

    “Our President must do the right thing and speak out before it's too late,” he said.

    According to The Mercury newspaper, the International Relations and Cooperation Department said it had appealed to Chinese authorities to have Linden’s sentence commuted to life imprisonment, or the equivalent thereof in Chinese law, when she was sentenced in 2009.

    Spokesman Clayson Monyela said the department had provided consular support to the family, the report said.

    “We have been very involved in the matter. We have been writing to the Chinese authorities, appealing to them to commute the sentence since we do not subscribe to the death penalty and she is a South African citizen.”

    He added that International Relations and Co-operation Minister Maite Nkoana-Mashabane had also appealed to the Chinese delegation attending the UN climate talks in Durban for help regarding Linden’s case, but to no avail, The Mercury reported.

    “All the necessary interventions were made by the department and even by the minister. On several occasions the minister engaged with her Chinese counterpart, even on the sidelines of COP17.

    “Our diplomatic interventions have been ongoing and we will continue to appeal to the Chinese authorities, even though they have decided to go ahead with it (the execution).”

    http://www.timeslive.co.za/local/201...n-china-report

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    Gang leader and two gang members executed

    The leader and two core members of a Mafia-style gang that terrorized local communities in southwest China's city of Kunming were executed, court officials said.

    Gang leader Jiang Jiatian, his mistress Yang Jufen and Xie Mingxiang were executed after the Supreme People's Court approved their sentences, said Ma Yukun, vice-president of the Kunming Intermediate People's Court.

    Jiang, 58, made a fortune from drug trafficking in the mid-1990s and invested his earnings in at least 10 teahouses, Internet cafes and hotels in Kunming. He organized a gang of 41 members and nearly all of his businesses were used as dens for prostitution, extortion, racketeering, and the sale of drugs and counterfeit banknotes, Ma said.

    The gang disrupted social order in at least three villages in the suburbs of Kunming and many villagers wrote to local governments complaining that they felt unsafe, court officials previously said.

    Jiang and other core gang members were sentenced to death by the Kunming local court in 2009, but the father of Jiang's mistress won a two-year stay of his execution after appealing.

    http://deathpenaltynews.blogspot.com/

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    China executes 12 people in single day, including man who bombed tax office, killing 4

    China has executed 12 people in a single day, including a man who bombed a local tax office.

    The official Xinhua News Agency says Liu Zhuiheng was convicted and sentenced to death for detonating explosives outside a tax office in Changsha city in Hunan province in July 2010. Four people were killed and 17 others wounded. Xinhua says the 52-year-old was venting anger over business losses.

    Xinhua says China’s supreme court approved the death sentence of Liu and 11 others Thursday. All death sentences are sent to the supreme court for review and are usually carried out immediately if approved.

    The other 11 people were convicted of crimes including murder and robbery.

    China executes more people than any other country — around 4,000 people a year.

    http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/...DOP_story.html

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    China Executes 15 in 1 Day (Updated)

    China’s official state media announced that 15 people were executed in the Hunan city of Changsha last Thursday, including a man convicted of detonating explosives outside a local tax office in July 2010. From The Washington Post:

    Xinhua says China’s supreme court approved the death sentence of Liu and 11 others Thursday. All death sentences are sent to the supreme court for review and are usually carried out immediately if approved.

    The other 11 people were convicted of crimes including murder and robbery.

    China executes more people than any other country — around 4,000 people a year.

    The China Daily reported that 15 people in total were executed and that two other men convicted of assisting Liu with the crime each received seven years in jail. See also additional CDT coverage of the death penalty in China, including a recent photoseries which depicts the last 12 hours in the lives of four condemned female drug dealers before their 2003 execution in Wuhan.

    [Update: This post was edited to reflect the China Daily report that a total of 15 people executed, rather than the 12 reported by the Washington Post.]

    http://chinadigitaltimes.net/2012/01...s-12-in-1-day/

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