An execution parade on TV was scheduled to be live broadcast this week in China on Friday.

The state owned television station CCTV during the two-hour execution show on Friday was to air the execution of Burmese drug lord and his three lackeys. The 44-year-old drug lord, Naw kham accused of murdering 13 crewmembers on the Mekong River in October 2011.

"I haven't been able to sleep for two days. I have been thinking too much. I miss my mum. I don't want my children to be like me," Kahm told a Chinese TV interviewer during a two-hour television production that was meant to end in a live execution.

The two-hour live broadcast showed police officers leading Kham bound in ropes and chains, from a detention center in southern China to a bus that took him to the execution site, where he and three of his lackeys were killed by lethal injection, however the actual deaths were not on camera.

The station did not say why it decided to revoke the decision to air the execution. However there was a China News Week poll on Weibo asking users if they thought showing the execution live on TV was right or wrong. Although initially popular opinion seemed to support the decision to air the execution however in the midst of the program people's attitudes began to change.

The public response in China regarding the execution parade has been mixed as some say it's the government's way of showing resolve and justice, while others say it as a wrongful making of someone's final moments in life as a lesson to others.

Experts said the broadcast was intended to be ambiguous and leave a powerful message and effect on viewers.

"I think [the broadcast] is compatible with what the government wants- to show the Chinese people that the government is serious about protecting them within the country and outside," Shi Yinhong, a professor of international relations at Renmin University in Beijing.

A blogger stated that while Kham should be punished for his crime, the live broadcast of the execution seems a tad too much.

"[The] CCTV's live broadcast of the execution is a live parade on TV and the Internet, this is not showing justice, this is showing power over flesh," the user wrote, according to ABC.