Comment by Animats

1 year ago

China sometimes does that. Zheng_Xiaoyu, the head of China's equivalent of the Food and Drug Administration, was caught taking bribes to allow tainted drugs to be sold. He was executed in 2007. [1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zheng_Xiaoyu

Wow and only 40 days from sentencing to execution

  • Say what you want about the death penalty, but it is hard to feel sympathy for a person who, by approving dangerous pharmaceuticals after accepting bribes,

    > caused the deaths of over 800 people in Panama from cough syrup that contained diethylene glycol in place of glycerin.