Quote:
Originally Posted by martyh
my main concern here is the way the chinese conducted the trial ,as has been commented on by several news agencies it was little more than a kangaroo court ,now if the defendant was suffering from bi-polar which is quite possible then under chinese law he should not have been executed ,the problem is though the defence wasn't allowed to produce any expert witnesses to prove otherwise so one has to wonder why the courts decided to abandon due process in this case was it because he was a foriegner and they felt that some kind of point had to made ,i don't know the answer but it makes me very uneasy how easy it could be to get executed in china given the number of capital offences there are in china
|
I thought that the bi-polar only came out after the hearing, so some last min clemency should have been accepted, that's the only part that I don't agree with. But then again I don't know all the ins and outs nor why this only came out afterwards and not during the trial.