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Thread: Should China abolish the death penalty?
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[quote=JIMMYB,385106]According to China Daily, Akmal Shaikh, a British national who was convicted of smuggling drugs into China, was executed by lethal injection on Tuesday in Urumqi after approval from China's Supreme People's Court (SPC). Akmal Shaikh was caught carrying up to 4,030 grams of heroin at the international airport of Urumqi in northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous from Dushanbe, capital of Tajikstan, on the morning of Sept. 12, 2007. Acording to China's Criminal Law, those who carry more than 50 grams of heroin will be sentenced to death. Oct. 29, 2008, he was sentenced to death by the Intermediate People's Court of Urumqi. This case has drawn much attention. Now people are debating whether China should abolish the death penalty. How do you view death penalty in China? Should China abolish the death penalty? [/quote]
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