Inside China's execution conveyor belt: How 'mobile injection vans and firing squads are used to put thousands to death a year' – outstripping capital punishment figures for the rest of the world combined

Mobile death vans, firing squads, lethal injections: These are all methods used by China to carry out more state-sanctioned executions than all other nations combined.

While the communist state does not release its official figures, rights groups believe many thousands of people are executed each year – more than the likes of Iran, Saudi Arabia and the US, even when tallied together.

Criminal law in the country is as severe as it is obfuscated, with many crimes punishable by death under