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Execution vans, also referred to as 'mobile execution', were developed by the government of the People's Republic of China, and first used in 1997. Prisoners are strapped to a stretcher and executed via lethal injection inside the van. The vans allow for death sentences to be enforced without bringing the prisoner to the execution grounds. Only four people are needed to perform the execution.1
The PRC government claims that this is a more humane form of execution, being far less painful than firing squad executions, and that mobile execution represents social progress for the Chinese state. Human-rights activists counter that execution vans are like government-sanctioned death squads, and allow for increased number and efficiency of executions, in order to aid the PRC government's lucrative human organ export trade. Activists also point out that the bodies are quickly cremated, which makes it impossible for family members to determine if organs have been removed.1
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