And...is prosecuting Africans for drug dealing any different to prosecuting anyone else for it? At the end of the day drug dealing still constitutes a major crime, so frankly they deserve everything that they get, much the same as everyone else.

Drug dealers are mass murderers, specially of teenagers. For that krime only acceptible punishment is CAPITAL PUNISHMENT! Congratulation to Chinese Legal System, only normal treatment of drug dealers on Planet Earth.

Yes, I do agree with Igor that drug traffickers and more so dealers are mass murderers and so they should be eliminated, be them Africans, Asians, Americans or whatsoever. Another set of people to take into consideration are the poppy growers/farmers or the chemical scientists who produce the artificial drugs. Thank you

Perhaps this will set an example for the rest of the world. We will never get rid of drugs until something as positive as this is shown to the world. In retrospect, the world was a far better place when we didn't have all of the drugs available today. I side with China on this issue. Someone has to start the ball rolling, which they have done.

all countrys should take the same action as china, and not listen to the do gooders who oppose taking action against the drug pushers of the world, and if all countries followed the chinese goverment the world would be a better place to live, to the people of china WELL DONE

To stop the behavior of drug smuggling, a counter behavior has to be implemented. For the Chinese to take a smuggler's life to save many, is a worthy investment in their no nonsense policy. Especially, given their particular history when European nations attemtpted to put the whole of China on Heroin, in the late 19th and into the early 20th century. That experience was devastating to Chinese moral and culture. Who can blame them now?

All Drug Dealer should be executed ! No argument ! Wish they would implement this in the UK. Well done China !

When will we start doing this to sellers of Alcohol & Tobacco. In the UK 120,000 deaths a year due to cigarettes roughly 500 due to drugs. I think people confuse legality with morality. 120,000 deaths ok - as it's legal. 500 deaths bad - cos it's illegal. Funny world.

You people commenting here are stupid and disgusting. Drug traffickers are simply responding to a market demand, delivering a product that people want. This product is made more dangerous by prohibition, which forces users out of proper society and deters them from seeking help or using the drugs in a safe environment, and the lack of official regulation prevents quality control which would also make the drugs safer. Money is not so easy to come by in Africa; if there is a way of making good money delivering something that people want, it is entirely reasonable for someone to take this opportunity. Equating them with mass murderers is ignorant and dimwitted.

China has set the example for all the countries of the world to follow. They have put the world drug pushers on notice. China can stop the drug problems because China has the will to hand out the ultimate punishment to these criminals. After a few thousand are executed, the illegal drug industry will start to dry up. The United Nations should endorse the Chinese method of dealing with pushers.. After illegal drugs are stopped, the legal drug pushers should receive the spotlight and end drug advertising on the television and kickbacks to doctors for pushing certain drugs through their medical practice.

I wholeheartedly believe China has the right approach to rid the scourge of their country. All governments around the world should take affirmative action to make drug trafficking a mandatory death sentence, whatever little sanction we have in the west allows these people to carry-on their evil trade even behind bars! WAKE UP WORLD LEADERS!!!

I've read all the comments here and I sad to note that there is only one person "Jasper" who seems to have a shred of humanity and common sense! The rest... just moronic, ignorant sheeple....

Listen you animals where is the death penalty for the chinese drug dealers in the USA and human traffickers who are worse than drug dealers who just give people like me what we want.. for every man executed there are 10 ready to take their place. China should focus on its human rights issues and chill with killing peolpe for their organs to fuel the black market which we all know they do.. funny how the article said African as if it makes a difference, Europeans are the MASTERS of drug dealing and make drugs that they cant live without like alcohol LEGAL spare me the bs thatit was right etc.. this pointless war on drugs started less than a century ago for "drugs" people have been using for 5000 years.. if there was no demand there would beno dealers thriving off it.. so get off your high horses and look around you meth labs and the other designer drugs kiling our youth here in the US are not pushed by Africans to the other ignorant poster who made dumb comments. Also it isnt Africans who tried to hook the population on drugs 150 yrs ago so to compare today's independent pusher to England a whole country that tried to devastate China is ridiculous

make an example of them. the chinese are right to shoot these people. if they were to be sent back to serve their sentences they woudl be laughing and encouraging others to smuggle more drugs...