China executes two hundred people in last 2 weeks

[lovuian]

http://feeds.bignewsnetwork.com/?sid=53235c1772c8d64a



China executes two hundred people in last 2 weeks
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Big News Network.com Wednesday 9th February, 2005

China rushed through 200 executions in the past two weeks in advance of the lunar new year.

In December and January the number of excutions reported in local media topped 650, although that number could be much higher as China does not release details of all executions.

"There is a huge gap between policy and practice with regard to the death penalty in China," said Catherine Baber, Deputy Asia Director at Amnesty International. "While the government claims that the death penalty is applied cautiously, the ritual peak in executions we’re witnessing at the moment completely undermines any pretence of ‘caution’."

"Moreover, there is the very real concern that a number of those executed may have been innocent: China’s justice system is simply not sound enough to guarantee a fair trial."


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Wow thats a bunch of executions!!!

[Sabriel]

1. Damn! We're never going to catch up.

When's *ush going back to Texas, anyway?

[pdurod1]

9. uhh Texas

[burythehatchet]

2. dubya is green with envy

[DulceDecorum]

3. Copycats!

They are just trying to catch up to what we did to Fallujah.
Yesterday.

On Edit.
Who is behind that website?
I've been seeing a LOT of them lately.
Somehow they just make me go Hmmmmm.

[UL_Approved]

21. The site has an integrated forum, no separation from news

This site is poorly identified, and has its reply system set up like a discussion board. Again, more investigation required...

[Virginian]

4. Is that how they keep their unemployment rates low.

We'd better keep watch that B* doesn't use this method to cut down on our unemployment rates. It sure could inhibit people from filing for benefits.

[Psephos]

11. 200 executed people and the thread is full of jokes about it?

What's up with that?

[Virginian]

22. Gallows humor

It comes after outrage and after the frustration that no one is doing anything to stop it. The gallows humor is another way to vent the frustration that our leaders are looking the other way and still granting China a Most Favored Trade status and allowing American companies outsource there.

The humor is another way to express our anger and frustration at this administration for doing nothing about these human rights violations, not even imposing sanctions because that might lose them the support of their wealthy contributors.

I don't think anyone is callous to the plight of these people, just helpless to do anything about it.

[CaliforniaLady]

5. Will the death penalty ever go away?

I just don't understand how people who claim they are religious, like the right-wing crazies do, can justify the death penalty.

Even here in California, I don't understand why we still have the death penalty.

[thecai]

13. Abolish the Death Penalty

As they do to the least of these, the poor, the needy, the prisoners, they have done unto Jesus. The death penalty is totally hypocritical of true Christianity. Especially considering over 20,000 Americans are wrongfully convicted each year in the U.S..
Regardless, *ush refused DNA testing for NUMEROUS death-penalty cases .
There's not much justice, ANYWHERE in the world. China, America, Iraq...

[UCSBLiberalCat53]

17. Pro-lifers and the death penalty

Notice most of Pro-lifers will say they're pro-death penalty too. Double standards, I just can't stand them!

[Psephos]

23. Flip it around...

Most pro-choicers are anti-death penalty, also. (Like me.)

Just a thought...

[UCSBLiberalCat53]

27. but...

supposedly the right has the moral authority, right? :eyes:

[MeinaShaw]

29. Against the death penalty and abortion

I may be in the minority here but I am against the death penalty and also against abortion. I don't see how you can be for one and against the other no matter which you think is ok or wrong.

[Igel]

28. So how does this relate to China, did the powers that be there

suddenly become religious and nobody told me?

[w4rma]

6. One of the most totalitarian nations in the world.

And thanks to the Republican deficits and expensive failed oil wars China is going to overtake us.

Think about the future when in 10 or 20 years China has the permanent seats in the U.N. and are overtly (and not just covertly) ordering us around.

[moondust]

14. Yeah, but the sweatshop profits are great!

For a few. While they last. As long as the profiteers don't have to live there.

[Vladimir]

18. They, of course,

have a permanent seat on the security council already, along with ze veto.

[fortyfeetunder]

7. What could be so heinous there...

to deserve capital punishment?

I had a newsclip of one story years ago about some Chinese managers who were executed for dictating shoddy workmanship and quality in a plant. I enlarged it and posted it in my cube. I had to take it down....LOL

[MidwestTransplant]

8. There is a bunch of upset folks in Texas.

[Solly Mack]

10. soo..after the lunar new year the count begins again?

"ritual peak" (I'm wondering)

This is PFB

[RapidCreek]

12. Now if that ain't an affirmation of the behavior which gains a nation

MOST FAVORED status, I don't know what is! Makes me proud to know George is working to send my job over there. How could I complain about pumping up the economy of such a fine example of Democracy and Freedom.

RC

[Disturbed]

15. China is advancing.

They are actually having juries now to judge guilt or not guilty. Before all were guilty, no jury, only an attorney to plead regarding sentence. The Death Penalty is barbaric and should be abolished in all nations.

[98geoduck]

16. They probably invited Gonzales for the training.

[pacifictiger]

19. We in the good old, moral and upright, US

are hardly blameless either.
Consider this: the entire US population is only 22% of China's population. 59 US inmates were executed last year - factor in the population differential and that gives you the equivalent of 268 executed here, with many more waiting in the wings.

[NickB79]

20. Ah, the human organ trade must be booming

Some rich guys must be really eager for their new organs, and some Chinese politicians must be really eager for their money.

[amazona]

24. hmmm

In need of some fast euros from sale of human organs?

The conservation movement is a breeding ground of communists
and other subversives. We intend to clean them out,
even if it means rounding up every birdwatcher in the country.
--John Mitchell, US Attorney General 1969-72

[GiovanniC]

25. So Are We Gonna Get Another News Story In the Next Couple Days

About the 1.3 billionth person born in China again? And again? And again?

http://www.usatoday.com/news/world/2005-01-06-china_x.htm

[rfkrfk]

26. why is this news?... remember Wang Weilin .n/t