A hugely popular Chinese TV show, sometimes moments before running in the prisoners, be interviewed international attention will attack.
Both PBS international, the overseas, part of the public television program work here, and the BBC on specials to "interviews prior to the execution," which draws weekly reported that 40 million viewers in China.
The Saturday night show, which will air for about five years, created and hosted by a woman named Ding Yu. She chats with convicted prisoners - sentenced most of them extremely violent crime - in their cells, before they are led off lethal injection or by shooting for running.
Some interviews are only short performed before a prisoner to death; in other cases, the prisoner be carried the Sitdowns just a few days before the scheduled execution.
That male and female prisoners, wearing handcuffs and iron leg, answer questions about their crimes - typically ends to excuse the interview from their victims and say farewell to friends and relatives, according to reports.
The program was punished by the Chinese Government with a view to deter criminal behavior. But the gruesome show popularity has surprised officials.
The BBC2 of "this world" to show scenes from "Interviews before executions" Monday in the UK.
"By shows rare footage of China's death row in addition to interviews with convicts, judges and journalists, it opens up an aspect of China, which is usually hidden from the world," a BBC spokeswoman said the daily mail.
PBS international produced a special on the series, the "viewers in the nightmare worlds convicted violent criminals to death - and of journalists, which is their last link with the world," according to its Web site.
Special, based on the BBC2 programme, "20 percent new content" has and not yet a broadcast, according to the website.
Neither PBS nor the BBC's US cable channel, BBC America, have special here, according to spokesman planned.
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