MOBILE DEATH VANS: INSIDE CHINA'S BRUTAL EXECUTION SYSTEM.

 MOBILE DEATH VANS: INSIDE CHINA'S BRUTAL EXECUTION SYSTEM.

 

China has been branded the world’s worst executioner as the state kills thousands of people every year

‘Mobile death vans’: Inside China’s brutal execution system

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China has been branded the world’s worst executioner, with thousands of prisoners being sentenced to death each year in barbaric fashion.

China has been branded the world’s worst executioner as the state kills thousands of people every year using firing squads, lethal injections and mobile death vans.

The true numbers of those killed by the Communist Party are thought to be staggeringly high – but the regime keeps them closely concealed as state secrets.

Human rights experts said the vile system has come into spotlight again after the killing of Chinese tycoon Lai Xiaomin.

He was executed last month on corruption charges – as in China even white collar crimes and drugs charges can land a person on death row.

And should you end up in the dock be wary, as Chinese prosecutors have a conviction rate of around 99 per cent as they doom thousands to execution.

Firing squads and lethal injections are two favourite methods of execution used by China.

Killer jabs were legalised by the regime in the 90s and are sometimes administered in one of the state‘s mobile “execution vans”.

Convicts are said to loaded into van and strapped to a table where they are administered the lethal injection.

Organs are then believed harvested from executed prisoners without any permission, for use in medicine and scientific experiments.

Amnesty International has named China as the world’s worst executor by a large margin – with its body count believed to be larger than the rest of the world’s combine total of 657.

While other nations had total figures, China’s shadowy death penalty system left the human rights group only able to offer a grim estimate of “thousands”.

Amnesty’s China researcher Kai Ong said China often holds mass rallies to announce people being sentenced to death in medieval-style public trials.

Ms Ong said: “The Chinese government still sees the use of the death penalty as an effective deterrent to crimes.

“Each June, local governments often hold mass sentencing rallies, in which students, teachers and the public are invited to witness the court handing down death penalty to individuals convicted of drug-related crimes.”

Firing squad executions were meant to have been discontinued in 2010, but there are many examples that this practice continues.

For example, Zhao Zewei was gunned down after stabbing nine schoolchildren to death.

Lethal injections have taken over as the main form of execution in the People’s Republic due to its cheaper cost and more secretive nature.

Mobile deaths vans meanwhile allow the execution of prisoners without having to transport them to a jail.