China Executes 10,000 People Per Year

[DSCH]

How do you guys feel about the death penalty?

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=stor...ns_040315061433 (http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/afp/20040315/wl_afp/china_npc_executions_040315061433)


"Every year China has nearly 10,000 cases of the death penalty that result in immediate execution. This is about five times more than all the other death penalty cases from other nations combined," said Chen Zhonglin, a National People's Congress (NPC) delegate from Chongqing municipality.

[Freiheitfuralle]

That's horrific but BU$H can top those numbers in a year! But really, I despise the death penalty because I believe everybody has the right to life, even if they took somebody elses.

[Stapler]

The death penalty isn't what I dislike; it's the barbarism associated with it. Death has become a spectator sport, there are televised executions, - as saddam Hussein's will be - family members of the victims are encouraged to watch executions, and they do. I think that sometimes, death is the only way these offenders can retain any dignity in their lives, but american culture turns these events into a circus.

[Kez]

how many executions in USA?
how many times bigger is china than USA?

Should we still critically back China? I think we need a new analysis on the situation.

[RebeldePorLaPAZ]

and you guys are going to just sit there and take in that propoganda? thats all i feel that is.


--paz

[Hampton]

USA has had 901 executions since 1976. 64 in 2003 and 71 in 2002. The highest was in 1999 when 98 people were executed, 35 of them being from a certain Gov. in texas.

[Sean Reynolds]

It's clear China executes more people per year than America, even if you factor in the population. I don't agree with execution. I'm of the kind that feels that death is an easy way out of paying for what you've done. It's obvious the death penalty hasn't deterred crime in any sense. So why keep it?

[EddieLokes]

Originally posted by Sean [email protected] 17 2004, 10:37 PM
It's clear China executes more people per year than America, even if you factor in the population. I don't agree with execution. I'm of the kind that feels that death is an easy way out of paying for what you've done. It's obvious the death penalty hasn't deterred crime in any sense. So why keep it?
I agree :che:

[Roses in the Hospital]

Are these criminal executions or 'counter revolutionary' deaths?
I was under the impression Chinese political dissidents were 're-educated' by being sent to work the fields with the peasantry untill they realised how lucky they were - seems like a reasonable and liberal way of dealing with them in my opinion...but perhaps my sources are out of date...

[SittingBull47]

i am opposed to intitutionalized killing. The death penalty (exception = only during a revolution or extreme cases) should be abolished.

China just keeps getting worse and worse.

[shyguywannadie]

Im pro the death penalty, some people need to be killed, like Ernesto, Fidel and Raul who had people excecuted I agree.

[BOZG]

Im pro the death penalty, some people need to be killed, like Ernesto, Fidel and Raul who had people excecuted I agree.

That's revolutionary violence rather than institutionalised killing.


I'm against the death penalty as a form of judicial punishment or deterrent but I believe that revolutionary violence can be justified.

[Spartacus2002]

we were dicussing this in my law class the other day, yes china does execute alot of people, not only do they execute them but they make the condemned man's family pay for the bullet. but because of these frequent executions there is virturally no violent crime in china. in a country thats many many times bigger populationwise then the us there is only a minute fraction of the violent crime there, it makes u wonder whether if there was increased executions in the us if there would be less ppl dying in the end. people would not be as quick to kill others and murders would be drop so would the number of people that would have to be executed because of the fear factor so in the end more executions means less scum more people alive, its basically choosing between whether killing a couple scumbags now and letting alot of innocent people escape death later. while this all is an interesting point as a christian i cannot agree with it, i am not God so i can not judge whether someone should die or not... but it is an interesting idea.

[Neelie The Great]

Death penalty.....well......I don't like it.

[crazy comie]

The fact that they execute that many pepole is disgracefull. I doudt the death penalty has anything to do with violent crime rates it probbably has more to dowith the culture and the lack of expensive things to steal as well as the big brother state.