Show chinese officials order machine strangulation provincial police authorities are instructed to execute criminals with strangulation machines in an order issued by the chinese ministry of justice the penal code provides strangulation as the means of carrying out death sentences gentene es but up to the present it has been done by two men twisting a cord about the neck of the convict such a method Is d declared less humane than the prescribed machine which however will work on the same principle of strangulation in order to lessen the shock to the victim the ministry further prescribes that the culprit prior to carrying out of the death sentence authorities in most places continue however to execute some prisoners by the simple expedient of a revolver placed against the base of the skull of the neeling kneeling 1 victim |