Somebody please tell Baba Suwe. China is not the best place to be caught smuggling drugs because just this Monday morning, China executed a South African woman by lethal injection Monday for drug smuggling after rejecting last-minute pleas for clemency from her government, the foreign ministry in Pretoria said.
Janice Linden, 35, was convicted of trying to sneak three kilograms (6.6 pounds) of methamphetamine into the country in her luggage through the southern city of Guangzhou in 2008.
"The execution took place around 10:00 am South African time (0800 GMT)," spokesman Clayson Monyela told AFP. "Our embassy officials were there with her family. She had two sisters who were there.
"We are disappointed since we would have preferred the death sentence to be commuted to a life sentence instead of the execution."
Convicted in 2009, Linden had exhausted all possible appeal processes.
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