China executes ex-food and drug chief

If this jerk had been an American bureaucrat taking bribes, while his corruption was costing people their lives, he would have gotten away with a strong slap on the wrist and perhaps a year or two at what amounts to a gated country club... and perhaps a ... f i n e.  

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070710/ap_on_re_as/china_tainted_products 

Note that period between the sentence and the punishment was less than two months. None of that letting 20 years go by and now the criminal is a wonderful... reformed... christian who has found de lawd ~ crap, and no one can even remember the victims. No whiny candle-burners standing outside the prison past their bedtimes calling for ... l e n i e n c y  &  t o l e r a n c e.