CHINA. A RUSH TO EXECUTIONS

“China has a brutally efficient system of capital punishment. Sentences can be carried out within months of conviction, sometimes in mobile lethal-injection vans. The cost is low -- $87 per execution. Appeals are limited and stacked in favor of the prosecution. And although the government does not issue statistics, estimates of the number of executions in China range upward from 3,000 a year,”stated a Los Angeles Times editorial.