In November 1989, in the People's Republic of China, an execution by firing squad was carried out. With the suspect prisoner on his knees, the Chinese police executing the death penalty held a rifle to the prisoner's back. This was just before the execution by firing squad. The prisoner was then shot to death.In 2019, excluding China, about 86% of all executions worldwide were carried out in Iran (251), Saudi Arabia (184), Iraq (over 100), Egypt (over 32), and the United States (about 22). The total number of executions in Vietnam and North Korea, for example, is completely unknown.
In the People's Republic of China, more than 100,000 people were detained or executed without trial for reasons inconvenient to the government. Chinese students and citizens were also arrested and detained during the 1989 democratization movement. Many of the prisoners were detained without prosecution or trial. Forced into unreasonable and unfair trials, they were detained under penalty of death, and the widespread anti-government activities in the mid-1990s were checked by a series of executions.
In the People's Republic of China, thousands of people have been killed in political repression. According to a survey by Amnesty International, more than 1,510 people were executed in 1991 alone. About 1,650 people were sentenced to death. The number of executions in the People's Republic of China is more than the total number of executions in the entire world. The exact number is a closely guarded state secret: about 18,194 executions were reported in China's state-run newspapers in the 1990s, and about 1,263 in 1999 alone. The death penalty is an eye for an eye overflowing in Chinese literature and tradition. The judiciary, which discovers the interests of the Chinese Communist Party, has been greatly influenced by the government.
The body of Qiu Xuanming, a prisoner executed in Shanghai, China, in June 2006, arrives at the crematorium from the execution site. His head, which had been shot in the back at close range, was wrapped in white gauze. His clothes were identical to those he had worn in his last court appearance at the hearing about an hour earlier. His shirt was covered with a large amount of blood, his abdomen was cut open, and his intestines were spilling out. Within minutes of his death from a gunshot to the back of the head, his organs were removed. (The New York Times, March 11, 2001) In 1984, the Chinese government issued a notice, "Provisional Regulations on the Use of Dead Bodies or Organs of Condemned Prisoners," stipulating that condemned prisoners be executed by firing squad. In 1984, the Chinese government issued a notice titled "Provisional Regulations on the Use of Dead Bodies or Organs of Condemned Prisoners," which stated that condemned prisoners should be executed by firing squad, but that "dead bodies or organs of the following categories of condemned prisoners may be used if the family refuses to collect the body, the prisoner volunteers the body before execution, or the family gives consent. China became the first country to carry out coronavirus-related executions in 2020.
