A 62-year-old Frenchman, sentenced to death in China in 2010 for drug trafficking, was executed in Guangzhou, in the south of the country, French authorities announced Saturday. Born in Laos, Chan Thao Phoumy had been convicted of manufacturing, transporting, smuggling, and trafficking methamphetamine. Chinese authorities carried out his execution “despite the efforts of French authorities, including to obtain a decision of clemency, on humanitarian grounds, for the benefit of our compatriot,” the French Foreign Ministry lamented, according to The Straits Times .
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>”[La peine de mort] est contraire à ce que l’humanité, depuis deux mille ans, a pensé de plus haut et a rêvé de plus noble. Elle est contraire à la fois à l’esprit du christianisme et à l’esprit de la Révolution.”
—Jean Jaurès
*The death penalty is contrary to what humanity, for two thousand years, has held most high and dreamt most noble. It is contrary both to the spirit of Christianity, and the spirit of the Revolution.*
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A 62-year-old Frenchman, sentenced to death in China in 2010 for drug trafficking, was executed in Guangzhou, in the south of the country, French authorities announced Saturday. Born in Laos, Chan Thao Phoumy had been convicted of manufacturing, transporting, smuggling, and trafficking methamphetamine. Chinese authorities carried out his execution “despite the efforts of French authorities, including to obtain a decision of clemency, on humanitarian grounds, for the benefit of our compatriot,” the French Foreign Ministry lamented, according to The Straits Times .
>”[La peine de mort] est contraire à ce que l’humanité, depuis deux mille ans, a pensé de plus haut et a rêvé de plus noble. Elle est contraire à la fois à l’esprit du christianisme et à l’esprit de la Révolution.”
—Jean Jaurès
*The death penalty is contrary to what humanity, for two thousand years, has held most high and dreamt most noble. It is contrary both to the spirit of Christianity, and the spirit of the Revolution.*