Thursday, February 12, 2009

China's Mobile Execution Chambers

According to Amnesty International, China had 1,770 state executions in 2005, the majority of which were carried out by gunshot. That's inefficient, and modern China is all about efficiency.

Which brings us to this picture: that's one of China's 40 brand new mobile execution chambers:

Jinguan — "Golden Champion" in Chinese — lies an hour's drive from Chongqing in southwestern China, below the green slopes of Cliff Mountain. Along with the death vans, the company also makes bulletproof limousines for the country's rich and armored trucks for banks. Jinguan's glossy death van brochure is printed in both Chinese and English.

From the outside, the vans resemble the police vehicles seen daily on China's roads. A look inside reveals their function.

"I'm most proud of the bed. It's very humane, like an ambulance," Kang says. He points to the power-driven metal stretcher that glides out at an incline. "It's too brutal to haul a person aboard," he says. "This makes it convenient for the criminal and the guards."

I'm speechless.

HT: Geekologie

2 comments:

trekkerjay said...

I spent ten days in China this past October, but did not see any vehicles that looked like this...

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