Photos: The Final 12 Hours of Chinese Women on Death Row

gorefanatic · #1 ● 08-23-2012, 03:24 AM

No gore so was not sure where to post this, but haunting images nonetheless (sorry did not know how to put captions on pictures uploaded from computer, as pictures linked from website were too large).

Photos: The final 12 hours of Chinese women on death row

1. A police officer brought in the outfit for the condemned to wear before the execution as per her request. Dai Donggui, a drug dealer sentenced to death, took over the top, and is about to try it on.

2. Dai Donggui folded her new outfit and put it away on her bed. The new outfit was bought by the police officer as per her request and was meant to be worn for her execution.

3. At 9:30 p.m., Dai Donggui was about to have some green bean soup. The McDonald’s taro pie handed out by the detention center to each death row inmate was left on the stool still untouched.

4. At 10:15 p.m., an ordinary inmate helped note down the final words of Li Juhua, another drug deal on death row.

5. At 10:07 p.m., two ordinary inmates played poker game with He Xiuling and Ma Qingxiu, two drug dealers condemned to death, with two officers watching.

6. He Xiuling stayed with some ordinary inmates and officers the night before the execution. Every now and then, she exuded childlike innocence and breeziness, which is in line with her young age.

7. An ordinary inmate fed dumplings to He Xiuling for her to snack on. He Xiuling, 25, hailed from Xiantao, Hubei province. She was sentenced to death for smuggling 7,000 grams of addictive drugs.

8. He Xiuling sang songs. Her voice sounded like pleadings with the Heaven for a second chance so that she could undo everything.

9. At 6 a.m., an ordinary inmate and an officer were applying nail polish to Li Juhua’s toes.

10. At 6:07 a.m. on June 25, 2003, Ma Qingxiu (third from right) requested that her clothes be bequeathed to an ordinary inmate who were in want of clothes.

11. At 6:11 a.m., He Xiuling was trying her new outfit. Her execution drew near. She disliked the white top, as it made her look fat. The head of the detention center then got a black top for her.

12. At 6:17 a.m., He Xiuling and Ma Qingxiu were having their last breakfast. Ma Qingxiu had some pork rice noodles. He Xiuling finished the McDonald’s taro pie she left over from the previous night.

13. At 6:29 a.m., He Xiuling wept and wiped her nose.

14. At 6:30 a.m., He Xiuling rubbed some gel onto her hair. The head of the detention center came specially to bring her hair gel, which made He Xiuling smile.

15. He Xiuling was overwhelmed with emotions as her execution drew near.

16. The last death row inmate Ma Qingxiu walked out of the room. Ma, 49, from Baokang county of Hubei province, was sentenced to death for trafficking 2,300 grams of drugs on four occasions.

17. At 7:00 a.m., police officers saw off the four women death row inmates leaving for the execution ground.

18. Ma Qingxiu was escorted by two officers to the execution ground.

19. Police officers unlocked the chains on their feet and put on new hand cuffs.

20. At 9:45 a.m. on the site for public trial, He Xiuling cried again. Among the two dozens of inmates to be executed that day, she was the only one that shed tears. She was also the youngest.

21. Death row inmates were escorted off the trial site to the execution ground.