China executes two over tainted milk powder scandal

[ccharles000]

China has executed two people for their role in a scandal involving tainted milk powder that resulted in six children dying, officials have said.

More than 300,000 other infants were made ill from milk powder contaminated with melamine, an industrial chemical used to make plastics and fertiliser.

Zhang Yujun and Geng Jinping are the only people to have been executed over the scandal, court officials said.

Nineteen other people were sentenced to prison terms.

Zhang Yujun was convicted of endangering public safety by dangerous means, for selling more than 770 tonnes of the tainted milk powder from July 2007 to August 2008, the official Xinhua news agency said.

Geng Jinping, who managed a milk production centre, was convicted of supplying milk containing melamine to the now-bankrupt Sanlu Group and other dairies.

The two men were sentenced in January in Shijiazhuang, capital of Hebei, where Sanlu was based. Their appeals were rejected by the Hebei Provincial Higher People's Court in March.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/8375638.stm

[Burma Jones]

1. Ya gotta hand it to the Chinese

If you're going to have the Death Penalty, it should apply to business executives as much as it does to the poor and uneducated.....

[Barack_America]

2. Indeed.

You said what I was going to say, but said it better.

ETA: On edit, I wonder what their penalty would be for tanking the country's financial system.

[madrchsod]

3. i will give the chinese credit...

although a tad bit harsh at least they bring their people responsible to justice. here in the america they never receive the justice they deserve for the crimes they commit

[cali]

4. that's just a ridiculous statement

although this country certainly needs to do better when it comes to white collar criminals, your generalization doesn't hold up for even a nanosecond. And I'm against the dp, here or anywhere else.