crankymessiah wrote:
] ] 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.

Wasn't this stage one of the Germans before the started building concentration camps?