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Zheng was sentenced to death in May for taking bribes to approve an antibiotic blamed for at least 10 deaths and other substandard medicines. Cao was given a death sentence last month with a two-year reprieve for accepting bribes and dereliction of duty.
Such suspended death sentences usually are commuted to life in prison if the convict is deemed to have reformed.
................................Last week, China’s food safety watchdog said almost 20 percent of products made for consumption within China were found to be substandard in the first half of 2007. Canned and preserved fruit and dried fish were the most problematic, primarily because of excessive bacteria and additives, the agency said.
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Seems to me that the punishment fits the crime in this case, people died.
I'd like to hear from all the Libertarians and extreem right wingers who seem to want to let the free market shove anything they want down our throats unchecked and unregulated. China is like the USA was over 100 years ago, a scary place in many ways.