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An execution van is a vehicle in which prisoners are executed through lethal injection. [1] The vehicle is equipped with an execution chamber with a bed that physically restrains prisoners while lethal injections are administered. Execution vans have been used in China since 2003. [2]
Execution vans are unique to China, however. Lethal injection is more commonly used for "economic crimes", such as corruption , while firing squads are used for more common crimes like murder . In 2010, Chinese authorities moved to have lethal injection become the dominant form of execution; in some provinces and municipalities, it is now the ...
Endangering national security is among the crime categories included in the 1997 revision of China's criminal code. [5] It comprises Articles 102 to 113 of the 1997 Criminal Law and imposes the confiscation of property as a supplementary penalty. [ 6 ]
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People executed by China (29 C, 16 P) P. ... Execution van; I. Interviews Before Execution; K. List of killings by law enforcement officers in China; L. Lingchi; M ...
By Megha Rajagopalan and Ben Blanchard (Reuters) - China executed 13 people on Monday for "terrorist attacks" in the far western region of Xinjiang, state media said, while another three were ...
However, the day before his execution date, his wife transferred ownership of shares worth CNY 49.5 billion to the government, including shares of an Indonesian oilfield, leading to a stay of Yuan's execution until March 2006. [2] [3] On 17 March 2006, Yuan was executed by lethal injection in an execution van in Liaoyang. [4]
BEIJING (Reuters) -Australian writer and pro-democracy blogger Yang Hengjun was handed a suspended death sentence by a Beijing court on Monday, in what human rights advocates say is an unusually ...