Death on wheels? China has it.

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Doug
Death on wheels? China has it.

 I can happily wait forever for this bus to come.

The country that executed more than four times as many convicts as the rest of the world combined last year is slowly phasing out public executions by firing squad in favor of lethal injections. Unlike the United States and Singapore, the only two other countries where death is administered by injection, China metes out capital punishment from specially equipped "death vans" that shuttle from town to town.

Makers of the death vans say the vehicles and injections are a civilized alternative to the firing squad, ending the life of the condemned more quickly, clinically and safely. The switch from gunshots to injections is a sign that China "promotes human rights now," says Kang Zhongwen, who designed the Jinguan Automobile death van in which "Devil" Zhang took his final ride.

 http://www.usatoday.com/news/world/2006-06-14-death-van_x.htm

 

Right now, I'm sure somebody in Texas is wishing they'd thought of this first.

martin dufresne

And I can happily pass forever on such goshawful USATODAY/FOX news anecdotes about countries the U.S. is at commercial war with...

Doug, the U.S. had traveling executioners for a long time. There is even a Stacey Keach 1970 movie by that name.

Doug

Traveling executioners, yes, but they used the local equipment.

martin dufresne

See the movie, OK?