China to swap bullets for lethal injections

How nice ! China is coming around a little in their human rights issues !   Now you can just be  "put to sleep" instead of facing the firing squad !

BEIJING (Reuters) - China's capital plans to use lethal injections
in executions by the end of the year and firing squads will eventually
be phased out across the country, state media on said on Tuesday,
quoting law officials.

Lethal injections were "cleaner, safer and more convenient," the official
China Daily quoted the director of China's Supreme People's Court, Hu
Yunteng, as saying.

"As lethal injection is the most popular method for execution adopted by countries
with capital punishment, China will follow suit ... it is considered
more humane," Hu added, although a complete nationwide shift was a
long-term goal because of costs.

In the capital, however, a new facility near a prison that houses most of
the capital's death row inmates has rooms for execution, observation
and storage of bodies, the Beijing News reported.