China Turns Prisoner Executions Into Reality TV

**Diogenes1** · 03-02-2013, 10:11 AM

China Turns Prisoner Executions Into Reality TV

China broadcast the final moments of four foreign drug traffickers yesterday, right before they were put to death by lethal injection for the 2011 killings of 13 Chinese fisherman.

The coverage, which lasted almost two hours, showed the prisoners being led from their cells to a final check-up by a doctor. Commentators for CCTV (the state television network) remarked, "From the appearance of these criminals, you can clearly tell our prison has carried out humanitarian spirit. These criminals clearly look healthier ... with better skin complexion than when they were arrested." The drug traffickers were the subject of a multinational manhunt which ultimately led to their arrest in Laos last spring.

The coverage, which did not show the actual injections, but did include live images of the prisoners just minutes before their death, drew criticism from human rights advocates. Prominent blogger lawyer Liu Xiaoyuan (who defended Ai Weiwei) wrote, "This carnival on CCTV was a violation not only of ethics, but of the criminal code regulations that the death penalty not be carried out in public."

China executes 4,000 prisoners a year, although coverage of this kind is unprecedented. In an interview this week, also broadcast on Chinese television, trafficker ringleader Naw Kham said, "I am afraid of death. I want to live. I don't want to die. I have children. I am afraid."

State officials confirmed his by lethal injection yesterday afternoon.

**Mr. Potato Head** · 03-02-2013, 10:13 AM

I love that they make sure they're healthy before they kill them.

**Diogenes1** · 03-02-2013, 10:16 AM

Originally Posted by Mr. Potato Head

I love that they make sure they're healthy before they kill them.

the final irony

**eliasbboy** · 03-02-2013, 07:34 PM

Originally Posted by Mr. Potato Head

I love that they make sure they're healthy before they kill them.

I think it was George Carlin that pointed out how they swab the arm with alcohol before they administer the lethal injection.

**renchfrieswith** · 03-02-2013, 07:58 PM

Originally Posted by eliasbboy

I think it was George Carlin that pointed out how they swab the arm with alcohol before they administer the lethal injection.

Yes, he was. Brilliant bit. Carlin was the greatest.

**Gomez** · 03-02-2013, 10:16 AM

4,000 per year.. that's like 7 every 10 seconds.

**FlaFlaFlunkie** · 03-02-2013, 10:44 AM

Originally Posted by Gomez El Fartknockero

4,000 per year.. that's like 7 every 10 seconds.

(It's their version of the Walking Dead)

**dinkus mayhem** · 03-02-2013, 02:40 PM

Originally Posted by Gomez El Fartknockero

4,000 per year.. that's like 7 every 10 seconds.

or like 11 people a day.

**TonyJax** · 03-02-2013, 09:06 PM

Originally Posted by Gomez El Fartknockero

4,000 per year.. that's like 7 every 10 seconds.

**The Shiv** · 03-02-2013, 10:17 AM

I think that's a good idea. Imagine a the revenue that could be generated.

We should do beheading and have baskets with numbers on it so Vegas could take bets

**redshirt** · 03-02-2013, 10:27 AM

Originally Posted by Shivettez

I think that's a good idea. Imagine a the revenue that could be generated.

We should do beheading and have baskets with numbers on it so Vegas could take bets

Or a Hunger Games type thing where out of four thousand hardened criminals one gets his/her freedom. Be like the Olympics and have your touchy feely human interest stories about the competitors, like this one grew up abandoned in the slums, was raped repeatedly as a child and rose to become a high level narcotics trafficker. Also have videos of the competitors being trained in various hand to hand and weaponed combats to make them effective and entertaining competitors.

**mattyfishrip197** · 03-02-2013, 10:40 AM

Originally Posted by Shivettez

I think that's a good idea. Imagine a the revenue that could be generated.

We should do beheading and have baskets with numbers on it so Vegas could take bets

or in your case you could do your old rape routine with the hair brush....that would sell i bet

**stripes** · 03-02-2013, 11:10 AM

Originally Posted by Shivettez

I think that's a good idea. Imagine a the revenue that could be generated.

We should do beheading and have baskets with numbers on it so Vegas could take bets

plinko?

**The Shiv** · 03-02-2013, 11:36 AM

Originally Posted by stripes

plinko?

Yep

**Diogenes1** · 03-02-2013, 10:24 AM

Mexico should do this with those cartel fuckers - fight shock-and-awe tactics with bigger shock-and-awe tactics

**Mr. Potato Head** · 03-02-2013, 10:25 AM

"Ping Pong has a bad case of the flu. Looks like we can't kill him today."

**jonpow** · 03-02-2013, 10:38 AM

The following 21 countries are believed by Amnesty International to have carried out executions in 2010: Bahrain (1), Bangladesh (9+), Belarus (2), Botswana (1), China (2000+), Egypt (4), Equatorial Guinea (4), Iran (252+), Iraq (1+), Japan (2), Libya (18+), Malaysia (1+), North Korea (60+), Saudi Arabia (27+), Singapore (0+), Somalia (8+), Sudan (6+), Syria (17+), USA (46), Vietnam (0+), Yemen (53+).

We're right behind China, Iran, North Korea and Yemen

Great company we keep

**beatlejews** · 03-02-2013, 10:40 AM

Originally Posted by jonpow

The following 21 countries are believed by Amnesty International to have carried out executions in 2010: Bahrain (1), Bangladesh (9+), Belarus (2), Botswana (1), China (2000+), Egypt (4), Equatorial Guinea (4), Iran (252+), Iraq (1+), Japan (2), Libya (18+), Malaysia (1+), North Korea (60+), Saudi Arabia (27+), Singapore (0+), Somalia (8+), Sudan (6+), Syria (17+), USA (46), Vietnam (0+), Yemen (53+).

We're right behind China, Iran, North Korea and Yemen

Great company we keep

well, Texas and Florida are