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    China executes former street vendor, provokes outcry

    China on Wednesday executed a street food vendor who drew widespread sympathy after fatally stabbing two "heavy-handed" security officials, provoking outraged webusers to denounce his death penalty as unjust.

    China's Supreme Court upheld a death sentence against Xia Junfeng, who murdered two officials after a dispute over his streetside stall in 2009, the Shenyang Intermediate People's court in northeast China said in a verified social media account.

    Xia had appealed his sentence on the grounds he killed the two officers in self-defence when they savagely attacked him and others in the city of Shenyang as he barbecued food on the street.

    Xia's case drew widespread sympathy amid regular reports of abuses by China's quasi-police city management officials.

    The officials, known as chengguan, "have earned a reputation for brutality and impunity... They are now synonymous for many Chinese citizens with physical violence, illegal detention, and theft," a spokeswoman for advocacy group Human Rights Watch said last year.

    Hundreds of people rioted in southwest China in 2011 after chengguan reportedly beat a disabled street vendor to death, while the alleged murder of a street vendor in southern China in July provoked a nationwide outcry.

    Xia's death sentence was the most discussed topic on Sina Weibo, a Chinese equivalent of Twitter, on Wednesday, where many expressed sympathy for him and called the verdict unjust.

    "This was a normal act of self-defence, how can you give the death penalty?" commentator Wei Zhuang wrote.

    "This is a father who killed to retain his dignity... at the time (of the murders) shouldn't it be the street, the city and the country who feel guilty?" author Li Chengpeng wrote.

    Others questioned the equality of China's legal system, referring ot the high-profile case of Gu Kailai, the wife of former top-ranked politician Bo Xilai, who was sentenced to a suspended death sentence -- usually commuted to life in prison -- last year for the murder of a British businessman.

    "Gu Kailai didn't get death sentence for killing. Why did Xia Junfeng get the death sentence for self defence," one Sina Weibo user wrote.

    One of Xia's lawyers, Chen Youxi, wrote on Sina Weibo that the court invited Xia's wife to meet her husband ahead of the execution.

    "After two and a half years of struggle, we are finally powerless," he added.

    Xia's family were reportedly ordered to pay the victims 650,000 yuan ($106,000) in compensation, and were raising money by selling paintings by Xia's son.

    China has halved its number of executions since 2007, when its high court began reviewing death row cases, but still puts around 4,000 people to death every year, US campaign group the Dui Hua Foundation estimates.

    http://www.globalpost.com/dispatch/n...rovokes-outcry
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    This was a sad thing that happend to these people. What can we do to help the victims families.

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    Triple Murderer Executed in China

    A man who murdered three young women was executed on Friday in Wuhan, capital of central China's Hubei Province, with the approval of the Supreme People's Court (SPC).

    Gan Qiang, 43, posed as a company recruiter and kidnapped Liu, 25, a college student in October, 2011. He stabbed and then suffocated her in his home and dismembered her body. Another student Zuo, 20, met him for a "job interview" just weeks later and was killed in the same way.

    The investigation revealed third victim in Sept. 2011 when he gave a ride to Gui in Wuhan, whom he stabbed before drowning.

    The SPC held that Gan, in seeking mental stimulation, had committed the crime of intentional killing in particularly serious circumstances. Gan was convicted and sentenced to death by Wuhan Intermediate People's Court on Nov. 21, 2012. He did not appeal.

    http://english.cri.cn/6909/2013/11/08/191s797349.htm
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    Chinese authorities execute Zhou Xijun for strangling two-month old

    CHINESE authorities have executed a man who killed an infant he found in a car he had stolen, according to domestic media reports.

    In a murder that stirred widespread public outrage, Zhou Xijun stole a sports utility vehicle in the northeastern province of Jilin in March, then strangled the two-month-old boy who had been on the back seat before leaving him in the snow, reports at the time said.

    "Zhou Xijun met with family members and then was executed in accordance with the law," the People's Daily, the newspaper of the ruling Communist Party, reported on its website on Friday.

    The child's parents had left him alone in the car briefly with the engine running.

    Zhou, 48 at the time of the incident, turned himself in a day after police and the public launched extensive searches for him and the baby.

    A court in Jilin's capital Changchun sentenced him to death in May, and a higher court rejected his appeal two months later.

    The Supreme Court then approved the execution, which took place in Changchun, the People's Daily website said.
    China does not publicise its total executions per year but the figure is believed to be the world's highest.

    The US-based Dui Hua Foundation estimates there were 3000 executions last year, a 75 per cent drop from 12,000 in 2002.

    Chinese leaders pledged after a key meeting last week to reduce the number of crimes eligible for the death penalty.

    http://www.news.com.au/world/chinese...-1226766474703
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    Swift justice...I like it!

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    I wonder, has China gone back to favoring a single bullet? I wonder because we in the USA have had so much trouble with procuring drugs for LI. I wonder if they make their own..

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    Quote Originally Posted by San Quentin View Post
    I wonder, has China gone back to favoring a single bullet? I wonder because we in the USA have had so much trouble with procuring drugs for LI. I wonder if they make their own..
    China commonly employs two methods of execution. Since 1949, the most common method has been execution by firing squad, which has been largely superseded by lethal injection, using the same three-drug cocktail pioneered by the United States, introduced in 1996. Execution vans are unique to China, however. Lethal injection is more commonly used for "economic crimes", such as corruption, while firing squads are used for more common crimes like murder. In 2010, Chinese authorities moved to have lethal injection become the dominant form of execution; in some provinces and municipalities, it is now the only legal form of capital punishment. The Dui Hua foundation notes that it is impossible to ascertain whether these guidelines are closely followed, as the method of execution is rarely specified in published reports.

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    In China, public executions still a part of village life

    CENGONG COUNTY, China--The clip posted on a Chinese video-sharing website was intriguing: "Villagers watch shooting of death row inmate."

    There was no information on the identity of the criminal, the crime or place and date of the execution. Chinese media did not report on it, either.

    I scrutinized the hundreds of comments posted to the site and looked at the video footage from every angle. It seemed likely the execution took place in a rural area of eastern Guizhou province.

    I contacted local authorities and law enforcement officials there and learned that a man was executed in a field in September of last year. It was carried out with a single pistol shot.

    The village is in the mountains of Cengong county. It is surrounded by fields of corn and terraced rice paddies.

    The villagers said the sentence was carried out in a field on the bank of a river.

    Wang Tangjun, 61, lives close to the spot where the execution took place.

    He recalled it was a gloriously sunny day when "we heard that morning there would be an execution by firing squad, and a throng of villagers rushed over."

    In the video, laborers, women with parasols and mothers and their children can be seen standing on a hill and the roofs of homes overlooking the field as the death row inmate was escorted to the spot to be killed.

    A dozen or so vehicles marked with the word "justice" show up, sirens blaring. They stop near thick undergrowth.

    According to local law enforcement officials, 27-year-old Pan Yanlong was put to death for murdering three men, including one with whom his wife had been having an affair. The crimes were committed in 2010. Pan was born in the village of Liyuan, also in Cengong county.

    He was led by five uniformed guards, weaving their way through the weeds. They pointed to the side of a footpath between two fields and ordered Pan to kneel. Two seconds later a gunshot rang out. Spectators up on the hill, some laughing, ask, "Is it over already?" Just over a minute after the group arrived, Pan was dead.

    His body was left where it fell. It was only retrieved later by his relatives.

    Liyuan's vice mayor, 58-year-old Pan Zhuqing, said he was contacted by the authorities at 7 a.m. on the day in question and told that an execution was scheduled for 3 p.m.

    Pan's parents and siblings, who are migrant workers, were not in the village, so his aunt and a number of acquaintances went to the prison to meet with him.

    A neighbor, Pan Shichao, 45, said, "We barely had time to tell Pan that we had come in his parents' place since they wouldn't be able to make it in time."

    "These kinds of public executions have been performed in this area for a long time," said the vice mayor, recalling that a rapist was put to death locally some 30 years ago.

    A 22-year-old homemaker who lives in Liyuan recalled watching two people shot to death near a dry riverbed just over a decade ago. "I think when the government carries out an execution, they just do it wherever they feel like it. It's really sloppy."

    Villagers do not seem bothered that some executions are performed in public. The condemned man's grandmother, 81-year-old Zhang Yumei, lamenting that she could not see her grandson one last time, said, "There is no loss of face just because it happened in public."

    STRONG SUPPORT FOR SETTING AN EXAMPLE

    Tong Zongjin, an associate professor at China University of Political Science and Law, points out that "public executions were a very regular occurrence until the 1980s." As a lingering effect of the Cultural Revolution of the 1960s and 1970s, the custom of publicly shaming suspects in so-called public trials continued long afterward in China.

    The Supreme People's Court, China's highest court, however, issued a notice in 1986 banning showy public executions as a deterrent. Public executions began to cease in the 1990s, mostly in major cities like Beijing and Shanghai. The recently uploaded video drew much criticism from Internet users. One wrote, "Death row inmates deserve dignity, too."

    Lethal injection and execution by firing squad are the prescribed means of carrying out death sentences in China, but there are no clear rules on where they should take place. There are also sharp regional differences in levels of education and awareness among residents of the law.

    "In areas where development has been slow to come, judges, prosecutors and residents have not changed from old ways of thinking about the rule of law, democracy and human rights," says Liu Renwen, a senior member of the Department of Criminal Law at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences.

    As villages do not have facilities to execute people, authorities in some areas continue to perform executions in outdoor locations.

    The Chinese government, meanwhile, has been trying to reduce the number of executions carried out. In 2011 it abolished the death penalty for 13 non-violent economic crimes such as theft of cultural properties and smuggling.

    The actual number of executions carried out in China is not made public as this is considered a "state secret."

    According to estimates by the Dui Hua Foundation, a privately run organization in the United States that monitors human rights in China, there were approximately 3,000 executions in China last year. While that is less than the 10,000-plus executions carried out annually in the 1990s, it is still far more than the 682 executions in 20 countries across the globe confirmed in 2012 by international human rights group Amnesty International.

    Liu, of the Department of Criminal Law, admits that abolishing the death penalty is unrealistic for now, but he argues that "the Party Central Committee should instruct officials to at least try not to execute people in front of the masses and should, from a humanitarian perspective, conduct all executions via lethal injection, which causes little pain."

    http://ajw.asahi.com/article/asia/AJ201311020011

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    I could not watch an execution unless I knew in detail the crime and the court findings.

    And then I would need to agree with the sentence.

    Accidental killings and self defense killings are not appropriate for capital punishments.

    Murder of any kind seems appropriate however, for whatever reason committed, and whether performed by the criminally insane or not.

    As such, I have no problem with a public execution, whether it is by a bullet or by a needle.

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    As heavy as communism sits on its shoulders, China is still infused with ancient Confucian philosophy. Confucianism in the simplified abstract abets communism, as it's based on cooperative effort, not adversarial relationships, and community, not individual, work. Mao in one of his fits wanted to send all the city workers out to work the fields, I guess so they'd learn to work together (before they died of starvation). Ironically, I was reading today that Chinese villages are going extinct, as more people go to the cities, where the better-paying factory jobs are. And the air pollution is legendary. China needs an intervention.

    Another social visionary, Pol Pot, had the same idea about agricultural rehabilitation. He emptied the cities and sent everyone out to the countryside. Along the way he killed almost everyone with an education, probably because he flunked out in Paris. I'm not sure what part of Confucianism he was following there.

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    We (the people of this planet) are heading towards a huge food crisis, it seems like to me.

    I don't get why the huge collective farms in Russia did not work.

    China will need some sort of collectivism which is going to be critical if their farm workers keep walking off the job.

    Corporate capitalist farming works well in California here. So maybe China will follow that route.

    China will need to do something fast to avert a crisis soon.

    As a strict planned society with a closed government, China can execute quickly, when they sentence an execution.

    There are advantages to a planned closed government.

    However they better do something about their agriculture soon.
    Last edited by AdamSmith; 11-23-2013 at 11:01 PM.

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