June 15, 2006

Pimp my Ride! Chinese Style

China makes ultimate punishment mobile

By Calum MacLeod, USA TODAY

CHONGQING, China — 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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Posted by Henry Louis Gomez at June 15, 2006 04:55 PM

Comments

How many of those buses has fidel ordered?

Posted by: Orlando [TypeKey Profile Page] at June 15, 2006 05:08 PM

Fidel's pretty hip for a guy his age. I can see it now...

"EY YO peep this, son. Yo ass may be bout to die, but you be straight pimpin' while you get yo injection on since we put 20 inch subwoofers in the back and a DVD player in the headrest. Enjoy that last movie, fo sheezy.

You didn't pay fo dat rice cooker... now ya ass iz grass."

Posted by: elbombillo [TypeKey Profile Page] at June 15, 2006 05:14 PM

Hmmmmmmm are these the buses the Chinese are selling to Castro?

Posted by: Larry Daley [TypeKey Profile Page] at June 15, 2006 06:23 PM

Mixed emotions on this one. In cases like the one mentioned here (double murder and rape) I think it's great. I also liked this quote:

"It doesn't matter what method you use," Qiu says. "If someone is convicted of a capital crime, they should be executed."

The downside of course is there's no mention of how many are killed for simple political reasons. Not to mention how many borderline cases are executed because there was a body part shortage.

Posted by: Jay [TypeKey Profile Page] at June 16, 2006 08:17 AM

Hi all:
The black maria of the 21st century.
More seriously I'm deeply creeped out. This vehicle reminds me of the Einzengruppe's mobile gas vans.
the culture of death on 4 wheels.

xavier

Posted by: xavier [TypeKey Profile Page] at June 16, 2006 09:29 AM

from town to town??

Posted by: Fausta [TypeKey Profile Page] at June 16, 2006 05:05 PM

If it's street legal in the US, Kevorkian would've bought one.

Posted by: Jay [TypeKey Profile Page] at June 16, 2006 08:51 PM


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