Death chamber on wheels [China]

upi via bloomberg no url | 3/29/4

[NativeNewYorker]

HAMBURG, Germany, March 29 (UPI) -- China has introduced execution chambers on wheels, according to the Hamburg weekly, Die Zeit. Prisoners are put to death by lethal injection in 19 blue-colored Toyota buses specially outfitted for the purpose.

China executes more people than any other nation. Based on estimates by Chen Zhonglin, director of the law institute of Chongqing, Amnesty International puts the number of executions per year at 10,000 -- five times as many as in the rest of the world put together.

Traditionally, the condemned are killed in public with shots in the back of the neck. The new death buses are divided into two compartments, writes the German paper.

The front section has leather seats for judges and prosecutors watching on a flat-paneled screen the proceedings in the rear compartment, where the prisoner, lying on a gurney, is administered poison.

The Jinguan (Golden Crown) Corp., which turns Toyotas into mobile execution chambers, plans to patent this product, reports Die Zeit.

[goldstategop]

In China, there are no time-consuming appeals. After your Supreme Court appeal is denied, you're executed forthwith. I guess they're saving on bullets now.

[RGSpincich]

And they say SUV's are unsafe...

[blackdog]

Shades of German trains and showers. History does so become so repetitious.......

[goldstategop]

Its an unfair comparison. We're talking about killers and rapists. No, I don't think any of us would want to live under China's system of government but they don't buy either into the Western nonsense about poverty and "root causes" being why criminals commit crime. They apply justice strictly so if you plan on being a big time criminal in China, forget about the ACLU and appeals dragging on for twenty years. You get to meet your Maker in a matter of days.

[dawn53]

Spent some time in China a few years ago when my husband was on a job assignment there.

One day, my son and I are walking down the street and a convoy of trucks, with sirens comes racing down the street toward the public arena.

There is a man in the back of one of the open bed trucks who is handcuffed to the truck and the truck is also filled with police.

I later inquired of our translator what the convoy was all about. He said, they were driving him to the public arena for public execution, which would be carried out by firing squad.

This article surprised me because it mentioned lethal injection. Guess they've updated their method of execution.

[Pikamax]

bttt

[antidisestablishment]

What's a little blood, compared to the grand opportunity for profit at the expense of some poor peasants [and our own national defense and morality]? I am so glad to hear how capitalism is reforming this bloodthirsty regime. Democracy is sure to break out any day now! I am so glad we can put aside those ridiculous old-fashioned scruples about freedom and the sanctity of life so that we can get on with the business of profiting from dictatorships.

[biblewonk]

It's a soylent green machine.

[Flightdeck]

Bribing elected officials and taking bribes is also a very common reason for execution

[Petronski]

What's so special about this? I thought all Toyota vans were death chambers on wheels.

[null and void]

This article surprised me because it mentioned lethal injection. Guess they've updated their method of execution.

This could be important if they are planning on going from executing 10,000 "killers and rapists" per year to 100,000 "people who disagree with the government" per year.

Think of the chilling effect of parking these within sight of, say Tianamin Square!

Arrested protesters go in one side, executed criminals go out the other...

[Tacis]

The Chinese and Cuban criminal justice systems are just so progressive! I wonder why Kerry and the other neocommunists don't emphasize this fact more frequently.

[blackdog]

Study China much?

Ya know, an interesting side note......

Continental Africa had tribes in the century of teens that had no institutional judicial system or means of incarceration of the criminal element. The persons who drew the wrath of a tribal decision would be killed along with their entire family. That was until slavery became an alternative.

Slavery was the justice system for countries so poor they cannot fund a judicial and prison system, or frankly find it a waste of resources.

In this century, China does the same thing. They slave labor their people unfortunate enough to have committed some wrong and live near a labor project. The unlucky ones just get the bullet if there is no need for the labor.

Study Mao and enjoy the time in his life when he stood by as a participant when his parents were executed in his families yard. After putting him thru school, providing him an above par upbringing and life, he stood by during their execution and by his own words felt nothing for them. Their crime was that they had a small farm and were property owners in what would have been the middle class during the revolution.

China is an evil place which places absolutely no value on human life other than the cost for some execution busses.

Mao raped little girls every day. It was his chosen method of cleaning his genitals.(by his own diary)

[blackdog]

Lethal injection in China............I guess pharmaceutical company relocations to China from the United States have some goodies that come along with it.

[monday]

"They apply justice strictly so if you plan on being a big time criminal in China, forget about the ACLU and appeals dragging on for twenty years. You get to meet your Maker in a matter of days."

Great if they are actually guilty. Sucks if they aren't.