Originally Posted by
The Atheist
That's a cop-out.
The size of the country and diversity of populace is irrelevant when a central committee runs the place homogenously.
Depends if the issue is black & white, and in the case of China, it is.
Xi is boss for life, and he's continually tightening the grip of the CCP over the population. They're rewriting history as we type. In another generation no Chinese person under 30 will know that Genghis Khan conquered the country, that Uighurs are muslin Chinese, or that Honkers used to be British.
This story certainly appears to be real:
https://metro.co.uk/2018/06/27/drug-...ldren-7665476/
Here's the Chinese version, including video, and there are definitely schoolkids there:
http://v.hinews.cn/page-1329629.html
Is that the action of a sane regime? Looks very black and white to me.
It didn't show that the students saw the shootings. The prisoners were walked away into divvy vans.
But it's shocking that students who appear to be middle school age are taken to see the prisoners just before they die.
These days executions we see more about them because of the world of Twitter and Trump pardoning them.
"Amnesty International claims that Mainland China executes more people than all other countries combined,[9] though if China's very large population is taken into account, the number of executions per capita is comparable to Vietnam and Thailand, and much lower than several countries, including Saudi Arabia, Iran and the United States.[10] The exact numbers of executions, and death sentences, are considered a state secret by China, and not publicly available.[11] According to the Dui Hua Foundation, a U.S.-based organization, the estimated number of executions has declined steadily in the twenty-first century, from 12,000 each year to supposedly 2,400.[12]"
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capita...hment_in_China
Nothing about capital punishment is sane.