Mobile execution
USA Today: China makes ultimate punishment mobile
“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 … China’s critics contend that the transition from firing squads to injections in death vans facilitates an illegal trade in prisoners’ organs … Organs can ‘be extracted in a speedier and more effective way than if the prisoner is shot’ … Makers of death vans say they save money for poor localities that would otherwise have to pay to construct execution facilities in prisons or court buildings. The vans ensure that prisoners sentenced to death can be executed locally, closer to communities where they broke the law.”
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June 21st, 2006 at 9:49 pm
that’s evil !
some of the thousands of Chinese executed each year commit crimes that are universally condemned.
but some commit ‘crimes’ that are only condemned by the rulers.
such brutality isn’t required in a more just society …
peet
June 22nd, 2006 at 10:08 pm
not that i’m ok with killing people for either reason.
a nation that kills its citizens definitely has sicknesses to be addressedn …
whether its an insecure clutching of power, and killing one’s opponents,
or if its killing people who commit violence against one another, remember it took place in a climate of societal callousness, disconnectedness and desparation
cheers, peet
June 30th, 2006 at 7:18 am
I agree with previous comment, but like to correct the main article, In singapore they still use the old fahion Hanging… and they are not to talkative about it…]
A develop Nation shall never have to use capial punishement to cure it’s crime problems… which are most of time also functions of the country…
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Cheers.
September 16th, 2008 at 1:59 am
i wonder how many of those comments were written on ‘made in china’ keyboards?
we’re quick to condemn, but happy to consume and trade