Execution van

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rdf:langString The execution van, also called a mobile execution unit, was developed by the government of the People's Republic of China (PRC) and was first used in 1997. The prisoner is strapped to a stretcher and executed inside the van. The van allows death sentences to be carried out without moving the prisoner to an execution ground. The vans also require less staffing, requiring four people to assist with the injection and are mobile. The PRC states that the vans are more humane than previous forms of execution. In 2004, Amnesty International predicted that the execution rate in China would increase because of mobile capital punishment. However, the number of executions dropped steadily in the 2000s, and significantly since 2007, when the Supreme People's Court regained the power to review all death sentences. Human rights groups have reported that China carries out the highest number of executions of any country. The Dui Hua Foundation put the number at 5,000 to 6,000 for 2007 and 2,400 for 2013, and in 2019, Amnesty International reported that mainland China executes more people than all other countries combined.