Here's a little bit of gallows humor to start off our Tuesday morning. USA Today reports that China found a way to execute prisoners on-the-go with its new "death van". Faced with increased space demands in the country's overcrowded prisons, the Chinese government decided that portable execution vehicles would be cheaper and more efficient. According to Amnesty International, China executes around 8,000 prisoners each year, four times the amount of all the other nations in the world combined. For comparison, the United States executed 60 prisoners last year. Pretty chilling stuff....
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