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Drug smuggler Akmal Shaikh executed

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  • 30-12-2009 2:41am
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    poisonated
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    Well first of all I would like to appolagize if this is already a topic.What is your opinion of the guy who was executed in China yesterday?To be honest,I did feel very sorry for the guy at first but then I learned about his history,the guy has being breaking the law for years.Am I the only one who feels that this guy may have gotten what he deserved.Before anyone starts,I am very sympatethic to people with mental illnesses but that has to end at a certain level.

    EDIT: here is a link btw:
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Akmal_Shaikh


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    mink_man
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    osama bin laden?


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    laugh
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    poisonated wrote: »
    Well first of all I would like to appolagize if this is already a topic.What is your opinion of the guy who was assasinated in China yesterday?To be honest,I did feel very sorry for the guy at first but then I learned about his history,the guy has being breaking the law for years.Am I the only one who feels that this guy may have gotten what he deserved.Before anyone starts,I am very sympatethic to people with mental illnesses but that has to end at a certain level.

    Sounds like the Chinese could murder you for picking up the wrong suitcase.


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    bluto63
    Registered Users Posts: 2,228 ✭✭✭bluto63


    Wikipedia wrote:
    The neutrality of this article is disputed

    Maybe find a news article to link to rather than a site anyone can change


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    mink_man
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,454 ✭✭✭mink_man


    oh rite...china is a communist country....


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    laugh
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    poisonated wrote: »
    assasinated

    He was executed.


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    partyatmygaff
    Registered Users Posts: 10,992 ✭✭✭✭partyatmygaff


    poisonated wrote: »
    Well first of all I would like to appolagize if this is already a topic.What is your opinion of the guy who was assasinated in China yesterday?To be honest,I did feel very sorry for the guy at first but then I learned about his history,the guy has being breaking the law for years.Am I the only one who feels that this guy may have gotten what he deserved.Before anyone starts,I am very sympatethic to people with mental illnesses but that has to end at a certain level.

    EDIT: here is a link btw:
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Akmal_Shaikh
    Assasinated?


    He was executed by lethal injection for dealing heroin in an area with a big heroin problem. It would have been better if he was deported to the UK to hold trial there though.
    You make it sound as if he's an innocent man the chinese government decided to kill for no reason whatsoever.


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    #8
    poisonated
    Registered Users Posts: 2,277 ✭✭✭poisonated


    haha should have expected this,it is after hours.OK he was executed.What is your opinion of this situation?


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    tooler08
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    I think that if he was so badly mentaly ill he should have not been alowed to be on his own in China


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    laugh
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    partyatmygaff wrote: »
    Assasinated?


    He was executed by lethal injection for dealing heroin in an area with a big heroin problem.

    He was detained at entry?


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    moretothegirl
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    I think its a scary world we live in... id say he was smuggling drugs all rite and new exactly what he was at.... but execution.... harsh...


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    mikom
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    poisonated wrote: »
    Am I the only one who feels that this guy may have gotten what he deserved.

    Probably.
    From what I could see of the court case there were loads of chinks in his defence.


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    My name is URL
    Registered Users Posts: 25,060 ✭✭✭✭My name is URL


    I don't agree with the death penalty whatsoever.. but I do think they were right not to undermine their own laws just because of outside pressure


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    jd007
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    Sure them chinese are mad!


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    TheZohanS
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    mikom wrote: »
    From what I could see of the court case there were loads of chinks in his defence.

    Don't.


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    That_Guy
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    poisonated wrote: »
    Well first of all I would like to appolagize if this is already a topic.What is your opinion of the guy who was executed in China yesterday?To be honest,I did feel very sorry for the guy at first but then I learned about his history,the guy has being breaking the law for years.Am I the only one who feels that this guy may have gotten what he deserved.Before anyone starts,I am very sympatethic to people with mental illnesses but that has to end at a certain level.

    EDIT: here is a link btw:
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Akmal_Shaikh

    Meh..... could've been worse.


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    Bloody Nipples
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    If the info in the background section is true then it sounds like someone with deeper issues. Guess we'll never know though.


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    TheZohanS
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    jd007 wrote: »
    Sure them chinese are mad!

    The guy was caught with over 4kg of heroin.


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    Dennis the Stone
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,358 ✭✭✭Dennis the Stone


    Here's his song.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZFv0eS5p9hs


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    Mike 1972
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,021 ✭✭✭Mike 1972


    partyatmygaff wrote: »
    He was executed by lethal injection for dealing heroin in an area with a big heroin problem.

    Even more evidence that prohibition doesnt work.


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    jd007
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    TheZohan wrote: »
    The guy was caught with over 4kg of heroin.

    So is death a suitable punishment for possession of heroin?


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    #22
    poisonated
    Registered Users Posts: 2,277 ✭✭✭poisonated


    I just feel that:
    1)it appears that he treated his children very badly
    2)he drank drove
    3)he abused everyone
    and then he smuggled heroin into somewhere where heroin is already a big problem.If you add up all of these factors,I think that he didn't seem to be a very nice guy.


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    ciano1
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    Ageispolis wrote: »
    Here's his song.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZFv0eS5p9hs

    CHOOOON

    Xmas No.1 2010 :D


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    laugh
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    My name is URL wrote: »
    but I do think they were right not to undermine their own laws just because of outside pressure

    Have international human rights not improved for this very reason?


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    digme
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    jd007 wrote: »
    So is death a suitable punishment for possession of heroin?
    YES. if yuou knew the history of china and the uk you wouldn't of asked that question...
    go google it.
    tough **** is what i say.,
    the uk and a jewish family flooded china with the stuff


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    partyatmygaff
    Registered Users Posts: 10,992 ✭✭✭✭partyatmygaff


    jd007 wrote: »
    So is death a suitable punishment for possession of heroin?
    Heroin is a pretty destructive drug, I'd say its the most destructive even. The death penalty is far too harsh though, he should have either gotten a long prison sentence or he should have been deported to the UK for a trial there. In any case from what we know, he didn't have any interpreter at his trial or any type of idea about what was going on in his case. That alone is pretty unjust.


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    bnt
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    One sign that the guy was "not all there": smuggling 4kg of pure Heroin in to a country that executes drug smugglers.

    We can argue about what is "appropriate", but it's not as if China (Singapore, Thailand etc.) care. What is one apparent criminal's life to a country of over a billion? It's over, now: the firing squad has closed his file permanently.

    From out there on the moon, international politics look so petty. You want to grab a politician by the scruff of the neck and drag him a quarter of a million miles out and say, ‘Look at that, you son of a bitch’.

    — Edgar Mitchell, Apollo 14 Astronaut



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    #28
    Heckler
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    Smuggle heroin into a country notorious for harsh dealings with such crimes. Get caught. Executed. Tough ****. No sympathy. Harsh but true. Maybe if our pansy assed judical system had a similar approach so many innocent people wouldn't get shafted everyday of the year. (By which i mean families of murder victims seeing the accused get a suspended sentence despite 50 previous convictions for example) **** him i say. Maybe he had mental problems, maybe he didn't. I don't care. i'm sick to **** of people getting lenient sentences because of bull**** mitigating circumstances. "oh I'm a reformed drug user from a broken home" **** right off.


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    #29
    Black Magic
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    Nobody should be killed with a death penalty. Shove him in a jail instead but don't kill him.


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    indough
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    Mike 1972 wrote: »
    Even more evidence that prohibition doesnt work.

    yeah lets legalise heroin that will really improve matters


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    markok84
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    partyatmygaff wrote: »
    Heroin is a pretty destructive drug, I'd say its the most destructive even. The death penalty is far too harsh though, he should have either gotten a long prison sentence or he should have been deported to the UK for a trial there. In any case from what we know, he didn't have any interpreter at his trial or any type of idea about what was going on in his case. That alone is pretty unjust.

    They also didn't tell him he was getting executed until moments before the execution.


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