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China has mobile "execution vans" that drive around carrying out the death penalty. The government claims this is both more cost-effective and more humane than traditional methods. China executed at least 1,634 people in 2015.
Han van Meegeren, a painter who avoided execution in 1945 for selling Dutch cultural property to the Nazis by proving he'd forged it all after setting up his studio in court. He received just one year for fraud and was later hailed as a hero for duping Hermann Göring, amongst others.
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China employs mobile "death vans" to carry out its executions, of these 65% result in harvested organs.
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The Soviets used mobile gas chamber vans to execute groups of counter-revolutionaries during The Great Purge of the 1930's
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Marinus Van Der Lubbe was executed by the Nazis in 1934 but in 1967 his sentence was reduced to 8 years imprisonment.
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Ans van Dijk. A Dutch Jewish woman who after being captured by the Nazis agreed to be their informant. She helped the Nazis capture at least 700 people, including her own brother and his family. She is the only Dutch woman to be executed for war crimes.
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There are fifty-five crimes punishable by death in China, most being non-violent offenses. Sentences are carried out in mobile "execution vans".
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The Communist who burnt down the Reichstag in 1933-- Marinus van der Lubbe-- had his death penalty annulled by the German government after WWII, and sentenced to eight years of hard labour... 31 years after his execution.
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China has mobile execution vans -- this allows them to enforce the death penalty without going to proper execution grounds...
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China has mobile "execution vans" to enforce the death penalty without moving to a proper execution ground.
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China carries out death sentences with an Execution van, and since the bodies are quickly cremated, there is the fear that organs are harvested without the family knowing.
