Life-giving public policy China executes so many people that it can provide organ transfers for all its citizens, not to mention wealthy Americans and Europeans. Executions are held near hospitals, and facilitators are careful not to shoot the organs slated for recycling. In special cases, doctors remove both kidneys before execution.
China provides the death penalty for embezzlement, car theft and political intractability.
Repeat offenders lose feet, which does not happen under real Islamic law. Last month, draft dodgers began forfeiting their ears. Now the government is experiencing some unsupportive reactions. A crowd in southern Iraq stormed a local office of Sadaam Hussein's party and removed several officials' ears. One accused thief had to use a machine gun to pacify the doctor who chopped off his hand.