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China’s Death Penalty On Wheels
China's Death Penalty On Wheels
by Gary Bunter
China's death penalty has gone mobile. Death vans are now replacing firing squads as the preferred method of execution.
In the past, condemned prisoners were executed publicly in prisons or court buildings. Kang Zhongwen, designer of the Jinguan Automobile death van, says ...
by Gary Bunter
China's death penalty has gone mobile. Death vans are now replacing firing squads as the preferred method of execution.
In the past, condemned prisoners were executed publicly in prisons or court buildings. Kang Zhongwen, designer of the Jinguan Automobile death van, says ...
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