Dr Mumbo

Exposing the media’s gullible side

Picture: Out of my face

It appears that pornography and death by execution are easy to confuse these days.

Well, they are if you’re Xinhua, China’s state-run news agency, which posted some pictures on its website of what was presumed to be an execution by lethal injection in the US, but turned out to be from a porn film.

The doctor’s pony tail and detainee’s clothes falling off after she was injected did not provide enough of a clue that this might not be the real thing.

Xinhua went with the headline: “Record of a female inmate’s execution – exposing the world’s darkest side”, which turned out to be a fraction misleading.

The blog Out of my face revealed that the images were actually from the (admittedly rather disturbing) fetish flick Lethal Injection, the South China Morning Post is reporting.

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