China sentences 11 members of mafia family to death
China sentences 11 members of mafia family to death
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China sentences 11 members of Ming mafia family to death
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While I disagree with death penalty on principle, I will not spill any tears for slavers.
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Be careful corrupt Chinese politicians. You may not want a precedence of death penalty when it's your turn.
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The CCP actually executes corrupt politicians quite often. It's one of the few things I can agree with them on. The issue is, if they can be trusted to grant fair trials. And then you have to ask how much can you trust an authoritarian government on really anything.
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No country should ever enforce the death penalty.
There's never been a country with the death penalty that has not made mistakes, and it vests an incredible amount of power in the state to silence political enemies and rivals.
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If you think a country exist where every trial is fair, you are naive.
I bet trials in USA and China are about equally unfair, and both have death penalty.
It's better in EU, but any trial will always have potential problems of errors or bias or even corruption. But at least EU doesn't have death penalty.
Even political corruption shouldn't have death penalty.
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The oligarchy doesn't like competition.
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Interesting that a country in the midst of a civil war is still able to stamp out this complicated problem within their borders.
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...well, technically the rebels did.
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I think this one was pretty obvious. They also turned them over to China for trial.
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It is the military taking away a financing source for rebels. They mostly are not able to deal with problems like these though. Myanmar has turned into the biggest source of drugs in the world due to the civil war.
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Have you even read the bloody article?
The rebels,which are well connected to China, had taken over the town these guys operated in and captured the scammers before extradition to China.
The bloody military has very likely been facilitating these guys for years.
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Good.
The death penalty exists for scum like this.
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This is how it’s done. Take notes America. You’re watching a country hold the wealthy accountable.
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This is how it’s done.
I think the death penalty is a bad policy overall and particularly bad in a court system that's largely a rubber stamp for the prosecutor.
At the same time, it is hard to pull together sympathy for a cartel so casual in their cruelty and brutal in their oppression.
I would like to believe there's a world in which all these people get the Jack Ma treatment, with varying lengths of time doing rice farming to give them all a taste of humility, and then they come back to society older and wiser and more peaceful. It's a shame we don't live in that place.
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I've heard about these. They lure people in with job offers (I've heard from Philippines etc), take their passport, and basically imprison them.