A good point my cousin made...............
"Would you be so keen to help knowing that in China during the past two years, there has been a dramatic increase in the use of the death penalty. This growth in the number of death sentences and executions is partly due to anti-crime campaigns launched by the government.
Defendants can be put to death for criminal offenses, including nonviolent property crimes such as theft, embezzlement and forgery. In 1993, 77% of all executions worldwide were carried out in China. On a single day, 9 January 1993, 356 death sentences were handed down by Chinese courts; 62 executions took place that day. During that year alone, 2,564 people were sentenced to death. At least 1,419 of them are known to have been executed.
The total number of death sentences and executions is believed to be higher. Defendants do not always have access to lawyers, and when a lawyer is available, he or she usually has no more than one or two days to prepare a defense. Death sentences have been imposed based on forced confessions and are often decided in advance of the trial by "adjudication committees," thereby circumventing defendants' rights to a fair and public hearing and presumption of innocence. If you were accused of causing the childs injuries, which has happened in the past, would you be so willing to put yours and your family future at risk?
We are so lucky to live in the UK where there is not the fear that there is in countries like China, I would like to think that no matter how I had been brought up I'd have the compassion to help another person in need, however if there was a chance that my act of compassion would destroy my own family I don't know how I would react
All I can do is be thankful that we do live in the UK and that had this happened to a little white girl here the van would have stopped and an ambulance would have been called".
"Would you be so keen to help knowing that in China during the past two years, there has been a dramatic increase in the use of the death penalty. This growth in the number of death sentences and executions is partly due to anti-crime campaigns launched by the government.
Defendants can be put to death for criminal offenses, including nonviolent property crimes such as theft, embezzlement and forgery. In 1993, 77% of all executions worldwide were carried out in China. On a single day, 9 January 1993, 356 death sentences were handed down by Chinese courts; 62 executions took place that day. During that year alone, 2,564 people were sentenced to death. At least 1,419 of them are known to have been executed.
The total number of death sentences and executions is believed to be higher. Defendants do not always have access to lawyers, and when a lawyer is available, he or she usually has no more than one or two days to prepare a defense. Death sentences have been imposed based on forced confessions and are often decided in advance of the trial by "adjudication committees," thereby circumventing defendants' rights to a fair and public hearing and presumption of innocence. If you were accused of causing the childs injuries, which has happened in the past, would you be so willing to put yours and your family future at risk?
We are so lucky to live in the UK where there is not the fear that there is in countries like China, I would like to think that no matter how I had been brought up I'd have the compassion to help another person in need, however if there was a chance that my act of compassion would destroy my own family I don't know how I would react
