I hear people say its in China other say Indonesia

  • qwename@lemmygrad.ml
    1·
    2 years ago

    It’s in China, but as all “shocking” news go, the original story depends on where you look, because anti-China sources (like Falungong) will tell a different story. There’s a question on Zhihu discussing what the actual case behind this photo was: https://www.zhihu.com/question/35185664. Also, this was during a period of “严打”(crackdown on crimes, severe punishment etc.) in the 90s.

    • qwename@lemmygrad.ml
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      2 years ago

      Not sure how rampant fake news is in other non-English speaking countries, but the Chinese Internet is riddled with sensational stories that are hard for individuals to verify, but easily forwarded to friends and family.

      Now with ChatGPT/Deepfake and the like more readily available, the situation will be even worse. To combat this kind of disinformation, an actual “Ministry of Truth” will be required, based on a database of verified information and using logic to verify new stories and claims. Things like Wikipedia or Baidu百科 won’t cut it.

    • himazawa@infosec.pub
      1·
      1 year ago

      Honestly curious, why? I live in a country that doesn’t have it but I don’t see downsides if the crimes committed are way too bad. For example, why keeping alive (with contributors money) a serial killer?

      • Kodemystic@lemmy.kodemystic.dev
        31·
        1 year ago

        So you think the state should have the power to decide who gets to live or die? Really? Also not to mention Justice is many times wrong and its not uncommon for people to be wrongly convicted.

  • Anarcho-Bolshevik@lemmygrad.ml
    1·
    2 years ago

    I am glad that you asked about this. Anticommunists like sharing these photographs without giving any context.

    I don’t speak Chinese, but judging from this (crudely translated) article, Luc Kim Phung (sometimes translated as Liu Jinfeng) suffered the death penalty for committing mariticide. Her husband was very abusive and infanticidal. ‘At the police station, Luc Kim Phung admitted all of [her] actions. In March 1995, Luc Kim Phung was sentenced to death, although the court considered all relevant circumstances, […] because she had a criminal record, there could be no other sentence.’

    • Eat_Yo_Vegetables69@lemmygrad.ml
      2·
      2 years ago

      because she had a criminal record, there could be no other sentence

      That’s one of the worst parts, as her prior criminal record was due to her being pretty much forced into prostitution after being kicked out of home by her abusive family.

        • Eat_Yo_Vegetables69@lemmygrad.ml
          3·
          2 years ago

          I couldn’t find any recent official comments on that case, the original ruling essentially said that 法律无情 (direct translation as the law is heartless and impartial).

          One recent case that did blow up in 2016 involved a son who defended his mother from a dozen usury debt collectors, they confined both of them and humilated the mother to a degree which caused the son to pick up a knife and fight back, killing one and injuring three. The initial police response before the stabbing was terrible, with the two officers clearly seeing the two in distress but they wrote it off as a simple civil dispute and left the area.

          Originally the son was sentenced to life imprisonment, but after an outcry it was overturned to 5 years and he was out on good behaviour in 2020. As of 2022 he was set to get married. The criminal boss behind the high interest debt was sentenced to 25 years.

    • Eat_Yo_Vegetables69@lemmygrad.ml
      6·
      2 years ago

      Yep it’s the same person

      The sign says “murderer Lu Jinfeng”

      Tragically according to the article, she was abused by her father as a child and was eventually kicked out of her home. This resulted in her being on the streets, being abused by anyone who took her in, eventually working at certain ‘establishments’ (you know the type). After serving a year behind bars, she returned home where she was sold numerous times and ended up being sold to the village thug.

      She not only suffered years of physical and sexual abuse by her drunk husband, but also his piece of shit cousins who assaulted her numerous times, resulting in a pregnancy. As a result she gave birth to a son, but the straw that broke the camel’s back was when her husband tied her to a tree and attacked her with weapons, demanding to know who the child’s dad was. After she woke up and saw that the child had been murdered by her husband, she lost it and killed the husband with a sickle.

      She was sentenced to death and it was carried out in 1995.

      • kikuos_child@lemmygrad.ml
        3·
        2 years ago

        Okay that was a very bad decision. So they knew all about her but still executed her? Was there any public outcry? I hope cases like hers now end up being very less or no prison time at all because that’s seriously so disheartening i literally wanna cry.

        • Eat_Yo_Vegetables69@lemmygrad.ml
          4·
          2 years ago

          Usually with these older cases the outcry would only come way after it was carried out. The poor lady suffered a lifetime only for it to end in a terrible outcome.

          In a few more recent cases from the 2000s to 2010s, there have been a few cases of wives killing abusive husbands in self defense and having their sentences lightened (from heavy sentences reduced to 3-8 years) after their circumstances are reviewed and with some public outcry (easier access to information during recent times). The Yu Huan case from above is another example.

        • sinovictorchan@lemmygrad.ml
          1·
          2 years ago

          According to my family of fake refugees in Canada who fled China before the Communists defeat the warlords, execution is necessary to reduce the number of competitors for limited food supply.