China to execute British man

[steve56]

Well he wont do it again the message is dont fuck with China!

[one eyed jack]

Jonesy wrote: He was a wrong 'un, make no mistake!

If you can substantiate him being a wrong un then my opinion will be resolute but I dont seem to get this message other than the possibility he was rushed through to execturion without the authorities at least looking into the possibility he was set up for being naive.

I accept the bi polarity but think thats not enough to not criminalise the man at least.

If you break it down then we all have some classification of bi polarity and this is where the chinese are less forgiving. Excuses to get a man off from capital punishment.

As far as they are concerned this is a great opportunity to tell the world do not test us. We will kill you just for even having it in your bags.

So please check your baggage when coming to China

[David Johnson]

You said "If this man was debilitated by being mentally ill to the extent that he couldn't tell right from wrong then he would also have had difficulty with all the separate tasks and organisation that goes into smuggling something. He may have had a history of mental illness but he obviously knew what he was doing and was capable of thinking clearly and calmly enough to carry out this crime"

Again you suggest he planned and organised this drug smuggling.

Given that Shaikh denied the above, please provide a link to the evidence that he planned and organised this drug smuggling? Or are you just guessing?

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[RoddersUK]

I would hardly say "rushed to execution" He was convicted over a year ago.
Normally in China a culprit is executed in less than two weeks. At least we allowed up to 6 weeks before we topped our culprits.
"Culprit" is a Home Office term for a convicted person sentenced to death when we topped em.

[Sam Slater]

[quote]Personally I am against capital punishment and he should have been deported but we have to respect the legal system in another country, it's their law.[/quote]

I too am against capital punishment, but I don't have to respect anyone's legal system if I think them against my own principles. I have a right to criticise, especially if I can give good reasons for that criticism.

[quote]I say that this man was sane enough to know that what he was doing was illegal, otherwise why try to conceal the drugs at all.[/quote]

All you're doing here is trying to rationalise a -possible- mad man's actions.

[quote]Repeating that tired old line about whether I studied psychology just underlines your perpetual ignorance about a lot of things and capacity for making things up, like that time you insisted the brain is a digital organ,[/quote]

You do this a lot when you're losing debates, Keith; you conveniently forget what I've said or just plain lie. I challenge you to find where I said the brain was a digital organ. That debate was me clearly giving an analogy in saying the active/inactive states of neurons are like the on/off or one/zero states of digital code. I thought the analogy good, you thought it bad, but at no point did I call the brain a 'digital organ'.

[quote]what nonsense you are full of.[/quote]

I don't lie to win a debate, Keith.

[quote]I hope somebody got you a book for Xmas.[/quote]

Tony Benn's diaries between 1940-1990.

[Jonesy]

Rodders is correct, he has been waiting for some time to pay the ultimate price, not rushed through after a kangaroo court session.
I head a phone-in radio show that suggested that drug traffikers aren't killed via Hanging or Shooting, but by lethal injection, using heroin as the killer, not medicinal drugs. As the heroin enters the traffikers system, he has that one 'rush' as it sinks in this was intended for other 'victims'. I think thats a good way of executing traffikers.

[Dick Moby]

I don't see many protests coming from Pakistan over the execution of somebody born in their country.