(June 15) — Zhang Shiqiang, known as the Nine-Fingered Devil, first tasted justice at 13. His father caught him stealing and cut off one of Zhang’s fingers.
Twenty-five years later, in 2004, Zhang met retribution once more, after his conviction for double murder and rape. He was one of the first people put to death in China’s new fleet of mobile execution chambers.
The country that executed more than four times as many convicts as the rest of the world combined last year is slowly phasing out public executions by firing squad in favor of lethal injections. Unlike the United States and Singapore, the only two other countries where death is administered by injection, China metes out capital punishment from specially equipped “death vans” that shuttle from town to town.[.continue.]
If the crime was a violent one like Zhangs it would be one thing.
But execution for tax invasion? Come on.
The US makes some Iraqis in a jail play naked twister and the US is the great evil. China rolls buses around killing 1700-8000 citizens a year many for nonviolent crimes and its just par for the course?
Let’s also not forget about what they have done in Tibet.
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