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China’s Death Penalty On Wheels

Loaded on March 15, 2007 by Gary Hunter published in Prison Legal News March, 2007, page 22
Filed under: Transplants, International, Prisoners-International, Death Penalty. Location: China.
China's Death Penalty On Wheels

by Gary Bunter

China's death penalty has gone mobile. Death vans are now replacing firing squads as the preferred method of execution.

In the past, condemned prisoners were executed publicly in prisons or court buildings. Kang Zhongwen, designer of the Jinguan Automobile death van, says …

 

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