Australia has recently won the title of the most boozed-up Nation but didn't get the prize for most drug addicts for some strange reason !

You have veered right off your own topic, Nathan. This woman you are on about is not facing the death penalty, and nobody not directly involved has the slightest idea how she is being treated. Amnesty International is a notoriously leftist organisation that nobody takes much notice of these days. Her brother says? You don't know that she even has a brother.

I loathe China and Communism, along with all other totalitarian regimes, but what goes on within Chinese borders is none of our business. China's threat to Australia is what we should be worried about: not some individual who might, or might not, have bad somethings done to her. There are over a billion Chinese citizens to worry about what goes on in their own country; their lack of interest, courage, whatever, is why they under the boot of the vilest regime on Earth. We need to be concentrating on our own country if we do not want to end up the same way. And, talking about 'electric chairs', capital punishment, which we do not have, along with maybes about unknown foreigners, is not the way to go about that.

But, seeing you have violated your own topic, I will also diverge and say that, as a responsible, still more or less democracy, Australia should boycott the Winter Olympics in China.

ttbn,
I would have happily hung the murderer and not given it a second thought.
Soldiers kill entirely innocent enemy soldiers, they kill blokes who have done them no harm (but would if they got the chance), blokes who have a wife and family to support .I was a soldier who saw active service, killing a callous murderer would have been nothing.

Really it is pretty simple.

I have little condemnation of a parent of a murdered child who may seek to kill a known offender before they are taken into custody.

But I most certainly don't want the State to have the power over life and death of anyone.

It would be interesting to know how many of those trying to strip the States of some of their pandemic powers would be of the same mind but they are not unrelated.

If for some reason I did face life in gaol I would prefer to end it all with a lethal injection.