Relatives visit Briton on death row in China (363 hits)
URUMQI, China – Relatives made a last-minute plea for mercy Monday for a Briton scheduled to be executed in China for drug smuggling after visiting the man whom they say may be mentally ill. Akmal Shaikh, a 53-year-old father of three, was not aware that his execution had been scheduled for Tuesday, until his cousins told him.
He would be the first citizen of a European country to be put to death in China in half a century. China has already rejected a plea from British Prime Minister Gordon Brown for Shaikh to be spared. Eleventh-hour appeals are almost never granted in China, which executes more people each year than all other countries combined.
This is what I like to see China's puts to death criminals as we should put to death all criminals regardless of whom they are and their background. When you commit a crime detrimental to any life it's a crime of insanity. So therefore claiming mental instability can't be a defense when your one well being is weigh against the well being of many the one should go. Period.
Monday, December 28th 2009 at 3:50PM
John Washington
