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Meet China’s death mobile(s)

Posted in Politics, Random by Derek at 9:00 am
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Your families Sunday camper is no match for China’s latest. In an effort to maintain a safer & more civilized enviroment during public executions, China has implemented a new execution method in the form of “mobile execution vans”.

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.

Any thoughts from our readers?

11 Responses to “Meet China’s death mobile(s)”

  1. josh says:

    Creepy.

  2. Enzer Miliard says:

    hmmmm…… I want one to drive around my town…… I wonder if it’s electric powered too…….. or maybe it’s a hybrid………. damn it I just want one! you know…… to drive around……… and flash my lights! and make people who get inside get creeped out by the menacing chair and gigantic syringe……..

  3. maijc says:

    cool, you dont have to go to the hong kong to die because of it…

  4. alexcotterilldrew says:

    Customer: Ill have one house special chowmein with egg fried rice, noodles, some banana fritters, 4 prawn rolls and a large bottle of coke, and a can i have a side order of death please.
    Clerk: Yes Sir that will be about 20 minutes

  5. Joe Anderson says:

    Execution of any form is wrong.

  6. hoodoo says:

    Do they drive around until you die, or do they just park it somewhere?

  7. HairyPotter says:

    What would you expect from guys who eat babies?

  8. Jay says:

    ^ Probably the same as people who commit genocide

  9. TheRat says:

    To above: Thats racist, and wrong. They don’t eat babies…

  10. Roy says:

    lethal injection? why not just run them over?

  11. Man, I’m going to be looking over my shoulder for these suckers now. Good note of practice for any of us poor fools living in China, considering how they drive here.

    I love the “promotes human rights” bit. Right.

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