Ed

*Scumbag Ed proudly waves a bloody great flag for hippies and wastes time on drug smugglers*

I sincerely hope that none of you ever have to face the sort of ordeal that this man faced. At least the death was by injection, and not bullet to the back of the head. My experience of a great deal of litigation - admittedly mostly civil, just a small amount of criminal - tells me that there is always something you can say for somebody.

I hate the so called death 'penalty'. It is never justified and I am so thankful that we don't have it here, that it is part of our fundamental human rights that this hideous and grotesque punishment was got rid of nearly 50 years ago. Nothing will ever change my mind that nobody is entitled to put anyone else to death - remember the old Gandhi quote, 'an eye for an eye makes the whole world blind.' Nope, not for Huntley, Brady, nor anyone else. As I've said on here before, if I were on a jury where a guilty finding meant death, I would refuse to convict.

And anyway you have all missed the point. China is entitled to its judicial system, corrupt and evil as it is. The point is that no mental health assessment was ever carried out on this man, except the ones undertaken earlier in this thread. He acted in a bizarre way that most people would struggle to understand. Why couldn't the Chinese have allowed access by a consultant psychiatrist? What did they have to lose?

And Brown and Miliband and all the rest of them will kick up a stink about the execution, but come New Year it will all be forgotten and we will have moved on to other things, like the upcoming general election, and the £120m in aid (source: the UK Government's Department For International Development website today) that we give to these odious corrupt repressive stinking murdering Chinese will continue as per normal, because when push comes to shove trade and business by mega corporations is more important than human life. Friends, that's the reality. Nice people, aren't they, the Chinese.