A CANADIAN man is set to join hundreds of shackled inmates on China’s degrading death row as they await agonising lethal injections or firing squads.

Robert Schellenberg, believed to be 38, from Abbotsford, British Columbia, was detained by the Chinese authorities for drug smuggling and after a retrial he had been condemned to die.

Schellenberg. who maintains his innocence, has been locked up in China since 2014, when he was accused of attempting to smuggle 225kg of methamphetamine to Australia.

In December 2018 he was sentenced to 15 years but after he appealed a retrial was ordered and the Dalian intermediate people’s court instead ordered his execution.
It comes as human rights organisation Amnesty International has branded China the world’s top executioner.

Schellenberg and others facing death are sent to detention centres where they await their fate on death row in tiny overcrowded cells or in solitary confinement.

According to the blog Dui Hua, those on death row wait just two months before being put to death compared to an average of 15 years in the United States. It says the doomed prisoners are degraded by being shackled at all times by their hands and feet.

Cell trustees help them to eat and go to the toilet and strip them ready for execution after which the chains are removed and cleaned.

Firing squads and lethal injections are two favourite methods of the death penalty used by China. Killer jabs are sometimes administered in one of the state’s mobile “execution vans”. Convicts are said to be loaded into a van and strapped to a table where they administered the lethal injection.

These vehicles were introduced in 2003 and although there have been reports that they are no longer used, Amnesty has said this is not the case.

With secrecy surrounding the Chinese death vans, victims are not often named due to the speed in which they are tried and executed.

One of the only victims named as an example was Mafia kingpin Liu Yong, who was given a lethal injection after being tried for wilfully causing harm to others, despite claims his confession was extracted under torture.

Ms Ong told The Sun Online although the Chinese government claims that less people are being executed – this is likely not the case.
Organs are then believed harvested from executed prisoners without any permission for use in medicine and scientific experiments.

Amnesty International has named China as the world’s worst executor by a large margin – with its body count believed to be larger than the rest of the world’s combined total of 657.

While other nations had total figures, China’s shadowy death penalty system left the human rights group only able to offer a grim estimate of “thousands”.

Amnesty’s China researcher Kai Ong told The Sun Online how China often holds mass rallies to announce people being sentenced to death in medieval-style public trials. Ms Ong said: “The Chinese government still sees the use of the death penalty as an effective deterrent to crimes.

“Each June, local governments often hold mass sentencing rallies, in which students, teachers and the public are invited to witness the court handing down death penalty to individuals convicted of drug-related crimes!

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U appeal 25 years jail but instead get DEATH penalty in return

That was a foolish act by the Canadian, you are living in a country where you have opportunity to easily earn money legitimately but choose to go for quick money, China and Indonesia are the wrongest places you can ever take your drug trafficking to.

Your mama warned You CRIME does notvoay

No wonder these people reputed for fast money no dare carry drugs go China

This is terrible! I await the day those who have committed extrajudicial killings in this country Nigeria would be treated just like the Chinese treat their criminals

Chai!!!

Damn!
You left a flourishing nation with good things for a country that frowns against drugs.

If citizens of developing nations like Nigeria are complaining about unemployment, poverty, etc. What complaints do you have? You got an opportunity and you blew It! Deal with It!

Their country, their laws.

naija politicians need this type of treatment

What makes him different and why is his story here?

And who is that cute Chinese man beside him in the first picture?

siofra:
What makes him different and why is his story here?

And who is that cute Chinese man beside him in the first picture?

His name is lu feng Dong.. if you need his contact, holla

siofra:
What makes him different and why is his story here?

And who is that cute Chinese man beside him in the first picture?

His name is Bubu na idiat.. Do you want his contact so u go meet him there

CheedyJ:

His name is lu feng Dong.. if you need his contact, holla

. That is deep.
The guy is a freshfaced operator. Those guys heart is behind their back.

MufasaLion:
Damn!
You left a flourishing nation with good things for a country that frowns against drugs.

If citizens of developing nations like Nigeria are complaining about unemployment, poverty, etc. What complaints do you have? You got an opportunity and you blew It! Deal with It!

Honestly, looking at the way you pointed his "no justification" approach to the crime he committed here, it's a let down to his people.

But then, one can still argue that these countries China and Indonesia, even Malaysia etc that all operate capital punishment, can easily pin anyone down to settle many scores either diplomatic or otherwise. We shouldn't rule out setup too.

He might just be innocent but only God truly knows.

Staccato001:


Honestly, looking at the way you pointed his "no justification" approach to the crime he committed here, it's a let down to his people.

But then, one can still argue that these countries China and Indonesia, even Malaysia etc that all operate capital punishment, can easily pin anyone down to settle many scores either diplomatic or otherwise. We shouldn't rule out setup too.

He might just be innocent but only God truly knows.

I doubt if he's innocent

MufasaLion:


I doubt if he's innocent

The deepest of the secret lies in the dark. Oft times, we've heard cases of drug syndicates placing drugs in the possession of innocent commuters.

Not ruling it out that someone from a first world can't peddle drugs, they often do too. However, there are so many victims of circumstances. Just imagine the case of the Nigerian diplomat, if he had been an ordinary citizen, he might have been implicated for offences not committed and of course, many Nigerians would have celebrated "another captured drug Baron" to face the executioner.

Staccato001:


The deepest of the secret lies in the dark. Oft times, we've heard cases of drug syndicates placing drugs in the possession of innocent commuters.

Not ruling it out that someone from a first world can't peddle drugs, they often do too. However, there are so many victims of circumstances. Just imagine the case of the Nigerian diplomat, if he had been an ordinary citizen, he might have been implicated for offences not committed and of course, many Nigerians would have celebrated "another captured drug Baron" to face the executioner.

You've got a point!

God knows I hate anything Chinese or Indians with passion .
Very ruthless, selfish and bloody racists .
My experience during my trainee days will never make me even go China in a free visit
Very useless communist state
They will use you like Jakie in their companies , pay you peanuts , no overtime allowance , no HMO nothing
You will work 12 hours with 30 mins break under hellish conditions , Bleep our girls and go away with it .
Chai

siofra:
What makes him different and why is his story here?

And who is that cute Chinese man beside him in the first picture?

his story is here cause of d cute Chinese man.

but ur definitions of cute is worrisome aunty

ipobarethieves:
U appeal 25 years jail but instead get DEATH penalty in return

what a mistake

I wish we could have this kind of law in Nigeria against the polithiefians

Mayng01:
I wish we could have this kind of law in Nigeria against the polithiefians

It's easier said than apply judiciously. That's when you will see some cabals using the law against other political adversaries at will, thereby losing its purpose. They will muscle the court to sentence and execute that clog in their wheel of operation. Even colleagues at work and business partners won't spare their targets as well.

The tool of Legality is a willing machinery that can be used in versatile ways. Either rightly or wrongly, people manipulate it all over. Many have been killed innocently on the guise of upholding legalised killings even in US.

15yrs not 25yrs

ipobarethieves:
U appeal 25 years jail but instead get DEATH penalty in return

shoot