China's death-row inmate bids his family last goodbye
A touching moment was caught on camera when a death-row inmate bade his family last goodbye in China's Heilongjiang province. Li Shiyuan was allowed to see his family before he was executed on Dec 15. He was sentenced to death after murdering three people in a fight in 2015.
SINGAPORE: EXECUTION OF 5 THAI NATIONALS PROVOKES ANGER IN THAILAND
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Five Thai nationals convicted of armed robbery and murder have been hanged in Singapore.
The executions provoked anger among civil rights activists in Thailand, who have criticised their government for not intervening.
But the Thai Foreign Ministry has defended the government's inaction, saying it did not want to harm the position of thousands of other Thai's still working in the country.
The five men, aged between 21 and 31, were executed in the early hours of Friday morning at Singapore's notorious Changi Prison.
They had been sentenced to death for the murder of two Indians in September 1993.
Following the executions Thailand's ambassador Adisuk Phanupong met with journalists and relatives of the dead men in the gardens of the Thai embassy.
The executions have been greeted with anger in Thailand where the government has been criticised for not doing enough to win leniency for the men.
Thailand's lacklustre response to the men's fate is being contrasted with that of the Philippines, which almost severed relations with Singapore last year after it hanged a Filipina maid convicted of murder.
But with 50,000 Thai workers living in Singapore, the Bangkok government has said that good economic and political links with the island had to take precedence over appealing for the lives of the condemned men, who were working there illegally.
No explanation could be solace for the men's families though.
Silenced in grief they were driven to the prison to say a final farewell to their loved ones.
The families were unable to afford to fly the bodies back to Thailand - instead they had to accept an offer from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs to pay for their cremation.
But the men's deaths will continue to have far-reaching implications for the Thai government - the opposition intends to pursue the issue in a no-confidence debate to be held soon.
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Amnesty International reported 1,032 state-sponsored executions worldwide in 2016, excluding China, where the true number is unknown because the government considers it a state secret.
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Amnesty said its figure for worldwide executions excluding China represents a 37 percent drop from 2015. The United States recorded 20 executions, its fewest in 25 years, in part because of court rulings and shortages of chemicals used in lethal injections.
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