China Makes Ultimate Punishment Mobile

June 15) -- Zhang Shiqiang, known as the Nine-Fingered Devil, first tasted justice at 13. His father caught him stealing and cut off one of Zhang's fingers.

Twenty-five years later, in 2004, Zhang met retribution once more, after his conviction for double murder and rape. He was one of the first people put to death in China's new fleet of mobile execution chambers.

The country that executed more than four times as many convicts as the rest of the world combined last year is slowly phasing out public executions by firing squad in favor of lethal injections. 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.


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I'm surprized that Junior hasn't coughed this idea out as civilized. I'm sooo glad these people are our friends.
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:scared:

I'm sure the press release discusses gross capital crimes that include murder. What about their version of "three strikes", or "sedition" which are also punishable by death? I have a feeling there is a tidy little business behind this.

I can only imagine - you could actually probably buy your way out of these arrangements, I'm sure bribery pays much more than your hourly wage for running that chop shop on wheels.

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Maybe it will make its way into a Wal-Mart.

Got crime? Call 1800JUSTICE for a mobile deathvan. If we can't there in 30 minutes or less, it's free! Free!

they'll travel from detention camp to detention camp . . .

and Halliburton will get the contract . . .