Gentlemen,
Read the article called "China's Mobile Death Fleet." Post your comments about any area of the article that may be controversial. Do you feel that this is an acceptable way of dealing with prisoners sentenced to death? Why or why not? For those of you who post later then the others, ask questions for others to answer. Again, I expect you to post more then simply your opinion.
The article was handed out in class, but is available here: http://www.atimes.com/atimes/China/HG21Ad01.html
Thank you,
Mr. G
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well i guess this is progress. Its better than just shooting them like they used to, so you can this could be a step to a more reasonable death penalty than picking up people in vans and using lethal injections.
ReplyDeleteI would like to know who's idea all of this was. Becuase that is barely a step in the right direction. They dont know which direction is the right one apparently. The article says that in 2005 the deaths may be as high as 8,000. Not to mention China carried out 8,000 kidney transplants last year but only 270, or fewer than 4% of the organs, came from voluntary donations which means these death vans may be taking out the prisoners organs and selling then b4 they kill them. China's all messed up.
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ReplyDeleteLet's try to keep the "China's messed up" kind of comments out of this blog. It is fine to disagree, or think that things are not perhaps the way they should be, but we need to be polite about it. What other parts of the article do those of you who have not posted yet think are different? Please read the assignment and make sure you do what you are asked.
Mr. G
i agree with maverick on this it is defintiely progress but the people in china are a little x-( but at least they have picked it up some and thought more about the civilians!
ReplyDeleteI agree with Dan. Government cant just give dead penalty to prisoners for their own benefit. That violate human right. Human life should be more valuable that that.
ReplyDeleteI guess you can call this improvement.. but with the billions of dollars the chinese goverment has why do they need to use vans.. why cant they just have a building where it all goes down. And if there reall are 8,000 executions a year in that one province maybe china needs to rethink their judicial system allowing people for a shot at redemption.
ReplyDeleteFor the first time I aggree with Brian, I was asking myself the same questioin when reading this. Why does it have to be vans? And if there is that much crime to produce that many executions then why is their nothing being done about that.
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