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Originally Posted by Mr Angry
The issue here is that he was denied a legal entitlement and executed when under their own legislature the Chinese, without any prerequisite for proof but simply in light of the seriousness of the crime, were obliged to have his mental health assessed and they refused to do so.
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But is this surprising, when China is a one-party state in which Law and Party are intertwined and not entirely separate? The Chinese people themselves suffer under the whim of local party officials, so what chance have foreigners got, when convicted of serious crimes? The judge wanted him dead, the judge made him dead. Unpleasant, but that's the way it is in China, and that, rather than any of the legal technicalities specific to this case, is the real issue.
We would all be better off getting hot under the collar about how we're causing this unreformed, undemocratic monster to build itself into one of the most powerful nations on Earth, thanks to our own insatiable demand for cheap high street goods.