China announced that it is planning to adopt a policy...

China announced that it is planning to adopt a policy of executions by lethal injection throughout the country, but added that executions by firing squad would continue. Chinese officials, argued that lethal injections were simpler, cheaper, more humane, and less traumatic than gun-shot executions. But human-rights groups fear that lethal injections might be used to procure organs from executed prisoners without their consent. The government denied such charges.