Iveco Produces ‘Execution Trucks’ for China

Dec. 18, 2003
Specially equipped “execution trucks,” produced in Nanjing, China by Iveco, Italy-based Fiat's trucking arm, should be used nationwide to execute criminals immediately after sentencing, the country’s highest court has recommended, according to a report by Agence France-Presse. The Beijing News daily said the high court of China's Liaoning province had recently bought such a vehicle for 400,000 yuan
Specially equipped “execution trucks,” produced in Nanjing, China by Iveco, Italy-based Fiat's trucking arm, should be used nationwide to execute criminals immediately after sentencing, the country’s highest court has recommended, according to a report by Agence France-Presse.

The Beijing News daily said the high court of China's Liaoning province had recently bought such a vehicle for 400,000 yuan (48,300 dollars). "Many large cities have permanent execution grounds, but in smaller cities it is difficult to carry out death sentences, so this is why we have these mobile execution units,” a government official was quoted.

The magazine Beijing Today in March reported that the special trucks were equipped with technology to carry out executions by lethal injection, a drastic change from China's traditional method of firing a bullet into the back of the head. Seventeen intermediate courts in Yunnan province in the southwest have already purchased execution trucks.

According to Amnesty International, China executed more than 1,000 people last year but other groups suggested the actual number is much higher, perhaps as many as 3,000.

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