In 2004, Zhang Shiqiang, who was convicted of double murder and rape, became one of the first convicts to be killed in China's new collection of mobile execution chambers, commonly referred to as "death vans."[REF]
China executed more than four times as many convicts as the rest of the world combined in 2005,[REF] Amnesty International estimated there were at least 1,770 executions in China that year, and most of them were still by firing squad.