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Live China TV coverage of executions raises outcry
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| Contributor | Homegrown Democrat |
| Last Edited | Homegrown Democrat Mar 03, 2013 12:00am |
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| Category | News |
| Author | Barbara Demick |
| Media | Newspaper - Los Angeles Times |
| News Date | Saturday, March 2, 2013 01:35:00 AM UTC0:0 |
| Description | BEIJING — It was reality television in the extreme.
Chinese state television Friday broadcast live images of the last moments of four foreign drug traffickers who were about to be executed for the 2011 killings of 13 Chinese fishermen on the Mekong River. Although the cameras pulled away before the lethal injections, the coverage was unprecedented, unleashing a storm of criticism and debate about the death penalty.
Psychologists decried the coverage as distressing to children. Lawyers complained that it violated a clause in the criminal code against parading the condemned before execution.
"This carnival on CCTV was a violation not only of ethics, but of the criminal code regulations that the death penalty not be carried out in public," wrote human rights lawyer Liu Xiaoyuan on a microblog. Many others, however, applauded the execution of the four drug traffickers for unusually heinous slayings that had galvanized the public. |
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