Main difference between death penalty in US and China, is in US police officers easily sentence subjects to death and the courts do it with great difficulty. In China the inverse.

For instance, high level executive Bryan Malinowski was executed by the ATF and barely anyone noticed, but if the courts had sentenced him in such way, there would be great outrage.

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arjie 4 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Interesting story. This guy was actually airport director at the airport in Little Rock, AR. He used to buy and sell a bunch of guns and was an avid collector. He was killed when ATF agents raided his home and he responded with gunfire. The controversy seems to circle around the fact that:

* the ATF decided not to raid his home when he was out of town but early in the morning when he was at home

* the ATF gave him 28 seconds to comply with their announcement after which they battered the door down

Given the fact that the agents weren't wearing body cameras, the guy had a normal day job that he'd go to, and that 28 seconds is certainly too short to dispose of firearms it does seem a lot like execution served by way of search warrant. Certainly, I wouldn't be able to let anyone in 28 s after waking up to pounding on my door.

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lux-lux-lux 4 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

> executed

He was shot after opening fire, unprovoked, on federal agents performing a search of his home under a lawfully obtained warrant.

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mothballed 4 hours ago | parent [-]

Willingly and with aforethought engineering a situation that is practically guaranteed provoke an asleep person with ~no notice in the early morning to "unprovoked" defend themselves and wife against unknown people breaking into their home in order to lawfully "defend" one's self is execution in my book.

I can understand if there's some imminent threat but there was none. He was going to wake up, and report to a secure airport full of cops and federal agents. But they couldn't resist engineering a situation that ended up with him dead, doing what anyone would do to protect their wife when given ~zero time to distinguish threats entering their home at night.

Now you can argue maybe it wasn't an execution, and only their acts were indistinguishable from what those doing an execution would do.

	▲	lux-lux-lux 2 hours ago \| parent [-]
		They gave notice, and supplying guns to criminals sounds like an immanent threat to me. I don’t think you’re being rational, here.