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The mobile execution centre!

I assure you it's quite real; the CARS like eyes and grin are the result of a SA photoshop.

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http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2003/ ... 92598.html

China is equipping its courts with mobile execution vans as it shifts away from the communist system's traditional bullet in the head, towards a more "civilised" use of lethal injection.

Intermediate Courts of the southern province of Yunnan were issued with 18 new execution vans on February 28 and a court official said some have already been used.

"We cannot tell you how many executions so far, otherwise you could work out from the daily rate how many we carry out," the official said.

Chinese authorities keep execution numbers a secret, but Western human rights monitors believe it is about 15,000 a year, more than the rest of the world's judicial executions combined.

The death penalty can apply for serious crimes against the person, armed robbery, drug trafficking, major cases of corruption and political violence.

Many public executions have been held in football stadiums so traditional execution methods are no secret. The condemned criminal is taken by open truck to the execution ground and made to kneel with hands cuffed and head bowed, before being shot in the head. Families who want to reclaim the body are charged for the bullet.

China's legal system allows only one appeal and lawyers say that less than 20 per cent of defendants have professional legal representation. When appeals against the death penalty are rejected, the sentence is carried out immediately, sometimes within hours.

In Yunnan, as well as in the cities of Harbin and Shanghai, death on the road has replaced death row. The execution vans are converted 24-seater buses. The windowless execution chamber at the back contains a metal bed on which the prisoner is strapped down. A police officer presses a button and an automatic syringe plunges a lethal drug into the prisoner's vein. The execution can be watched on a video monitor next to the driver's seat and be recorded if required. Court officials say the lethal drug was devised by researchers at the Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences to meet two criteria: that it causes no sharp pain or emotional upset for the prisoner and that it works within 30 to 60 seconds.

Although the vans cost about 500,000 yuan ($A100,000) each, officials say the method is cheaper and requires less manpower than traditional executions, because land for traditional execution grounds is not cheap. But the main impetus was a law passed in 1995, making lethal injection an alternative to the bullet.

Yunnan officials say most prisoners and their families prefer the injection.

"When they know they can't be pardoned, they accept this method calmly, and have less fear," one official told the Chinese Life Weekly.

Just wow.

Are the lights for real? Like, do they have ambulance-style flashing lights to make other drivers clear a path, because there's a State Emergency and somebody needs an EXECUTION? That's just odd.

Stark wrote:Are the lights for real? Like, do they have ambulance-style flashing lights to make other drivers clear a path, because there's a State Emergency and somebody needs an EXECUTION? That's just odd.

Yeah the sirens are for real.

I love the part where they charge the families for the bullet. We, the center of global capitalism, should do that.

Have a very nice day.
-fgalkin

After hearing about SCOTUS hearings on lethal injection in the USA, I'll take the bullet, thank you.

(the article says they use a different drug that they developed, I'm just observing that lethal injection isn't necessarily "more civilized.)

Kids Show Jingle: "Eric the Magical Bus of Doom. Eric goes from town to town, always rolling, always rolling; who is he going to see today? Fun and adventure, meting out justice the Chinese way! Eric tells kids not to break the law and makes new friends along the way. Eric goes from town to town, always rolling, always rolling; new adventures to be found. Eric the Magical Bus of Doom!"

I prefer the old german variant which was a truck with the exhaust led into the cargo compartment.

You know, China might not yet be at the level of 'haha oh wow' as Soviet Russia under Comrade Stalin, but they're getting damn close.

I know this is kinda sick but I wonder what kind of new verses one could come up with for the old 'wheels on bus' song.

Wicked Pilot wrote:I know this is kinda sick but I wonder what kind of new verses one could come up with for the old 'wheels on bus' song.

The needles on the bus go stab, stab, stab.
Stab, stab, stab.
Stab, stab, stab.
The needles on the bus go stab, stab, stab.
All through the town!

My pardon should be here soon,
Be here soon,
Be here soon,
My pardon should be here soon,
All th..*bang!*

I feel somehow lesser after saying that.

I am in awe at Chinese efficiency. Not since the Nazi death camps have we had such compact, pragmatic death programmes carried out.

I really can't picture the bus without the eyes and grin though. It's PSYOPS if anything.

bah! In SOVIET RUSSIA the executed would then be used as fuel. Just beacuse they are dead doesn't mean they are excused from their duties to the state.

I'm sorry but that grin is just desturbing. I think I'm scard for life...

I find the whole concept strangely humorous, while being utterly sickened at the same time. Anyway, here is another story with a better picture.

CelesKnight wrote:I find the whole concept strangely humorous, while being utterly sickened at the same time. Anyway, here is another story with a better picture.

From the article:

(June 15) -- Zhang Shiqiang, known as the Nine-Fingered Devil, first tasted justice at 13. His father caught him stealing and cut off one of Zhang's fingers.

Wow, that must have been conductive to a well-adjusted adolescance.