Naw Kham Executed In China: State TV Shows Drug Smuggler Before Lethal Injection

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Source: AP

BEIJING -- China executed four foreigners on Friday for killing 13 Chinese sailors in an attack on the Mekong River, following a live nationwide broadcast showing them being led to their deaths that harkened back to the mass public execution rallies of past years.

The attack on the sailors on the Mekong highlighted drug smuggling and extortion rackets along the vital waterway and led to a major expansion of Chinese police powers in the region.

Accused ringleader Naw Kham and accomplices Hsang Kham, Yi Lai, and Zha Xiha were found guilty of the killings. The four are of Myanmar, Thai, Laotian, and unknown nationality.

In the unusual live broadcast, state-run CCTV showed the four being led in shackles and handcuffs from their cells at a jail in southwestern Yunnan province's capital of Kunming prior to their execution by lethal injection. Their deaths were announced two hours later by the Yunnan provincial police department.

Read more: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/03/01/china-execution-naw-kham_n_2789791.html

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China is a 21st century powerhouse, with 18th century humanity.

This could be the state where the Republican party devolves us to.

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1. Wow, lethal injection? I was not aware China had gone away from a bullet. They certainly had

a more humane execution than those they murdered. Unusual (for China) even if not cruel - and they don't even have an 8th Amendment.