"Akmal Shaikh was convicted and sentenced to death penalty for serious drug trafficking on solid evidence. In fact, 150mg of heroin of high degree of purity would be lethal. The amount of heroin he carried was 4030g, enough to cause 26800 deaths."
On Christmas Eve this was part of the Chinese statement about the impending execution of Akmal Shaikh.
Of course, this is misleading claptrap and anyone with a firing neurone will raise an eyebrow at these numbers. It is possible to do a 'back of an envelope' calculation of how many deaths 4kg of heroin might cause.
