China confirms death sentence to British drug smuggler

**Inkslinger** · 9th January 2010 06:28 AM

[quote name='freecell' date='08 January 2010 - 09:23 PM' timestamp='1263003830' post='95164']

Seems harsh but was he trafficking? Anyone who will traffic this stuff to young kids makes me sick. Many young prostitutes on the streets because of these enslaving drugs. Always two sides to every story.

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Are you for capital punishment?

**freecell** · 9th January 2010 09:15 AM

[quote name='Inkslinger' date='09 January 2010 - 01:28 PM' timestamp='1263043689' post='95263']

Are you for capital punishment?

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I have seen many young men and women turn their lives around in prison. While some die of natural death the way they came in 10 to 50 years later with no remorse. To answer your question yes but I think our system gives a death sentence to too many that donâ€™t deserve it. But how many death sentences did this man in China give out before he got caught? This is not a simple yes or no question. I have a heart for these people but I also feel for the victims and the families that seek justice not revenge. So if someone raped, shot and killed your wife and threw her in the dumpster would you be for or against the death penalty for this person?

**Inkslinger** · 9th January 2010 02:14 PM

[quote name='freecell' date='09 January 2010 - 11:15 AM' timestamp='1263053721' post='95335']

I have seen many young men and women turn their lives around in prison. While some die of natural death the way they came in 10 to 50 years later with no remorse. To answer your question yes but I think our system gives a death sentence to too many that donâ€™t deserve it. But how many death sentences did this man in China give out before he got caught? This is not a simple yes or no question. I have a heart for these people but I also feel for the victims and the families that seek justice not revenge. So if someone raped, shot and killed your wife and threw her in the dumpster would you be for or against the death penalty for this person?

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As far as this dealer guy, I say he got what he deserved, as far as dealing death.

That's all heroin is. Living junkies are the walking dead.

But I'm on the fence on the death penalty, especially when you hear stories like this.

Inmate wrongly executed

**caffeine** · 15th January 2010 05:23 AM

[quote name='Rashi' date='08 January 2010 - 02:16 PM' timestamp='1262956564' post='94853']

I said it approximately.

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I didn't mean just your figure was nonsense. I meant both it and the official government figure and any other estimate which counted in thousands or hundreds or anything bigger than a few was nonsense. There's no way this heroin could have caused thousands of deaths - it's just more unreasoned propoganda in the global war on drugs.