AS I understood it, the plea for clemency to the Chinese with regard to convicted British heroin smuggler Akmal Shaikh was made because the man was demonstrably mentally ill.
Execution of sick human beings is redolent of Hitler’s Germany.
D Lonsdale, Ripon, North Yorkshire.
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