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Originally Posted by Betonov
Yep, I can try to look trough their cultural glasses, but I can't agree with them.
What do you do when the police makes a mistake. It's a communist state, they're not exactly known for eficiency.
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Communist? That is just a misleading label. The party is more confucian-technocratic and, as we recently learned, nationalistic, than anything else, and like all autocracies, it is highly vulnerable to corruption. Nevertheless the Chinese have since decades now created a bigger amount of economical growth in a given time and a bigger number of people benefitting to some degree from growing wealth in said short amount time, than anyone else ever has demonstrated the capability in history.
The philosophy behind their justice system is much different than in our cultural sphere. We must not like it, but it does not matter. But we are not in a position to tell them they have to change it.
That death penalties cannot be corrected, is a principle point in criticism against it, and I share it. Too many cases in American history of executions get demonstrated later to have been ended in execution innocents. But my impression with this thread is that the primary criticism is against the delinquents being paraded on TV, not about the fact that they have the death penalty in China.
FTR, I am against the general use of death penalties, because death as a penalty to me is a contradiction, a penalty is a measurement by which the behavior of the subject should be sanctioned (focus in the past) and/or altered (focus on the future), but if the subject is dead, the whole thing becomes pointless. However, I accept executions to be used in very rare and specific cases as a means or prevention. But like with torture, it obviously should not be an accepted procedure as a standard tool, but be reserved for very rare and specific cases. It is not the ordinary every-day crime we are talking about, may it be street crime, may it be robbery with murder.