The former head of Food and Drug safety administration has been executed

[RB TexLa]

in China.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070710/ap_on_re_as/china_tainted_products_12


BEIJING (Reuters) - Zheng Xiaoyu, former director of China's State Food and Drug Administration, was executed on Tuesday after being found guilty of corruption, Xinhua news agency said.





http://www.tiscali.co.uk/news/newswire.php/news/reuters/2007/07/10/world/china-upholds-death-sentence-on-ex-drug-chief.html&template=/news/templates/newswire/news_story_reuters.html
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070710/wl_nm/china_corruption_dc_2

[Phrogman]

1. They don't fuck around, do they?

[napi21]

9. I can't believe I thought those exact words when I read the HL!

Like minds really do think alike!!!

[Phrogman]

12. Its almost like an automatic thought reaction, just "heres the headline, heres your thought"

Bet Libbys reading this and happy his names not Chin.

[CitizenLeft]

17. so did I

WHOA!

[Jed Dilligan]

10. Honestly, I wish we had the DP for corrupt suits

instead of just developmentally disabled schizophrenics.

[JeffR]

2. Death by lethal injection of melamine

Horrifying way to go...

[Catherine Vincent]

3. Wow!

[entanglement]

4. Arrest, trial, conviction, sentence, appeal(?) and execution - in less than a fortnight

n/t

[NanceGreggs]

5. "The accused was served his final meal ...

... after which execution proved to be unnecessary."

[TheDebbieDee]

11. LOL!

[ben_meyers]

6. Now that's what I'm talkin' about!

[uppityperson]

7. wow.

The Supreme People's Court approved the death sentence against Zheng as the government grapples with a series of scandals over tainted food, drug and other products.

[Mr_Jefferson_24]

8. Wow. If we handled corrupt members of...

...our current administration like this our executive branch would be left with about half a dozen people to run the country.

[Bitwit1234]

13. If the world hadn't found out and China knew and they were making

money they would not care one damn bit.

[Justitia]

14. Holy shit. Hardcore, huh? -eom

[Bluebear]

15. Barbaric. nt

[HughMoran]

16. I thought my coworker was joking

When he said they were going to execute this fellow.