Chapter 40 Chapter 36: Lethal injection

On ×月×日, 2003, the Jidong Intermediate People's Court used the first large-scale execution vehicle purchased by Hebei for the first time to execute a criminal by injecting drugs.An eyewitness at the execution ground saw the whole process of execution.Some people said that this was an experiment and preparation made in advance for Li Chen to be executed by lethal injection. On the Unforgivable Day, after careful preparations, an intermediate court in Jidong decided to use an execution vehicle to execute Li Si, a criminal who had been approved by the Hebei Provincial High Court for execution.

The court found out: at 8 o'clock in the morning on x month x day, because Li Si had no money to spend, he rushed to the home of his relative Li Mou near a railway station in Jidong to borrow money.When it was found that only Li was at home, he raped Li and robbed him. On the evening of ×月×, when Li Si was doing business with a prostitute queen at a hotel, he found that the money he was carrying was not enough to pay for whoring, so he had the evil idea of ​​robbery and murder.Taking advantage of Wang's unpreparedness, Li Si strangled Wang to death and took away 300 yuan in cash and a mobile phone. At about 6:00 a.m. on ×月×日, Li Si knocked on the door under the pretext of shopping and entered the store opened by Zhang in an industrial zone in Guye District, Eastern Jidong. After strangling Zhang to death, he took more than 400 yuan in cash and fled the scene.

On ×月×日, 2003, Li Si, who was responsible for two lives, raped a woman and premeditatedly murdered a prison guard, was sentenced to death by the Jidong Intermediate Court and deprived of political rights for life. On ×month×day, 2003, the Provincial High Court approved the execution of criminal Li Si according to law. At 8 o'clock in the morning, the executive judge and the prosecutor, accompanied by the judicial police, came to the detention center to arrest the criminal Li Hou. At this time, Li Si was eating breakfast under the supervision of the guarding police.After breakfast, the policeman softly asked him to change into the clothes he liked.At this time, a reporter saw that the muscles on Li Si's face twitched.He knew that his own death was coming.

According to the police, Li Si did not appeal after receiving the verdict of the first instance. He knew that his crime was unforgivable.On the way out of the prison area, Li Si was informed by the law enforcement officer that the court would execute him by injecting drugs.Li Si repeatedly said: "I've seen it on TV, this method is not painful." A reporter took the time to have a brief conversation with Li Si.A reporter: "At this point, what do you want to say to your family?" Li Si: "I have nothing to say to my family. I am sorry for them, and I am even more sorry for the victim."

Li Si, who used to kill without blinking an eye, looked up greedily at the blue sky and white clouds outside the high wall, then sighed heavily and said: "I have three worst things in my life: the person I hate the most is my mistress, and the thing I fear most It is discrimination and blindness, and the most guilty thing is that I am sorry for the tragic death of the victim." A certain reporter: "Li Si, do you think you deserve to die?" Li Si: "Damn me. I just hope that when I die, I can be more straightforward." At 9:50 in the morning, Li Si was escorted from the sentencing venue to the execution ground by the majestic judicial police.In the execution ground, the staff on the mobile execution vehicle have completed various execution preparations.When the criminal Li Si was escorted out of the prison van, a director of the Jidong Intermediate People's Court standing in front of the execution van said to Li Si with a serious expression: "Criminal Li Si, you are the first person in our hospital to use the mobile execution van to execute the death penalty by injection." criminal, I hope you cooperate." Li Si expressed his willingness to cooperate.

At exactly 10 o'clock, Li Si was fixed on the execution bed by the judicial police.A reporter saw that the criminal had a calm expression. Starting at 10:01, four executive nurses entered with syringes with lead wires, and each took a needle into the veins of Li's limbs and then withdrew.Two of the four needles are glucose solutions, and two are medicinal liquids. At 10:06, the execution officer pressed the start switch of the injection wand connected to the criminal's vein.I saw that two needle tubes respectively equipped with respiratory depressants and heart depressants were mechanically injected, and the drug injection was completed very evenly within 50 seconds.

At 10:08:10, the instrument showed that the criminal's heartbeat and pulse stopped at the same time, and the criminal was declared dead after the forensic examination.The entire execution process lasted only 124 seconds.Immediately after the execution of the criminal, the body was transported to the crematorium for cremation. It is understood that the injection rods equipped on the executive vehicle of Jidong Intermediate Court are worth hundreds of thousands of yuan.The principle of the drug injection method adopted by the Jidong Intermediate Court this time is to use drugs to suppress the criminal's respiratory and cardiac systems, causing their functions to rapidly fail and cause them to die.

According to reports, the two bottles of drugs injected into the criminal Li Si that day were brought back from Beijing by the dean himself. At present, the court has a special person to manage the drugs used, and after each execution, the bottles and needles used will be taken away. Destroy it and prevent it from entering the society. At the beginning of 2003, an intermediate people's court in eastern Jidong, after soliciting opinions from various parties, decided to jointly design my country's first large-scale special vehicle for execution of the death penalty with a domestic automobile manufacturing company. The method of execution is injection of drugs.The execution vehicle is equipped with an execution bed, stretcher, monitoring system, washing equipment, mortuary cabinet, self-provided power supply, etc., and can successfully complete the execution task of the death penalty.

The execution vehicle cost more than 800,000 yuan, and its top speed can reach more than 100 kilometers per hour. A reporter saw in the car that the working room is located in the middle and rear of the car, and the working bed, which can be adjusted in height arbitrarily, is placed in the middle of the working room.At the same time, the executive bed can be rotated 360 degrees to facilitate alignment with the automatic door.During the execution, the execution personnel receive the data sent back by the detectors of the electrocardiograph and electroencephalogram connected to the prisoner's body through the monitor at the front of the car, and supervise the execution process of the death penalty.

An eyewitness said that the lethal injection experiment was successful and all preparations had been made for Li Chen's execution. On October 9, 2003, the Higher People's Court of Hebei Province rejected Li Zhen's appeal and upheld Li Zhen's death sentence in the first instance.For the next 35 days, Li Zhen used poker cards to calculate his own fate in the prison. He hoped that there would be another miracle at the last moment to save his life. On the morning of November 13, 2003, the Jidong People's Court of Hebei Province executed Li Zhen according to the order of the Supreme People's Court.It is reported that this is the highest-level official executed in Hebei Province since the reform and opening up.

At 6 a.m. on November 11, 2003, six police cars from the Jidong Intermediate Court filed out... The police lights flashed, and a police car drove out of the gate of Jidong Intermediate Court, followed by five police cars. "This situation is mostly because the court is going to go to the detention center to arrest people." People commented.The court today mentioned Li Zhen, the former head of the State Taxation Bureau of Hebei Province. At 7:15 a.m., Li Zhen from a detention center in Ji County, Tianjin, was put into a prison van. Li Zhen was detained at the Ji County Detention Center in Tianjin.The Jixian Detention Center is located on the outskirts of Jixian County. Outside the 5-meter-high gray wall is a large area of ​​harvested farmland and scattered grassland.A cement road with a width of only 4 meters and a length of more than 300 meters connects the detention center with the Beijing-Harbin Highway (National Highway 102).Li Zhen was imprisoned here. When Li Zhen walked out of the cell, the shackles he was dragging rattled. On both sides were riot police with armed guns and live ammunition.Li Zhen was escorted back to a detention center in Jidong to await execution. The 12th was Li Zhen's last day. The relevant department allowed him to take off his prison uniform. He changed into a dark blue suit, his hair was neatly combed, and he wore a pair of black cloth shoes. These brand new black cloth shoes accompanied him. This "man of the hour" has spent the last ten hours of his life.The night before the execution of the death sentence, Li Zhen knew that his situation was over, and Li Zhen had a sleepless night. On the morning of November 13, 2003, the Tangshan Intermediate People's Court of Jidong, in accordance with the Supreme People's Court's review and approval ruling and the execution order issued by the Supreme People's Court, took Li Zhen, the former director of the State Taxation Bureau of Hebei Province, who had committed corruption and accepting bribes, to the execution ground and executed him. death penalty. At 7 a.m. on the 13th, in a detention center in Tangshan, eastern Jidong, Li Zhen entered the courtroom under the escort of two bailiffs.The judge of the Provincial High Court read to Li Zhen the decision made by the Supreme People's Court on legally approving the Hebei High Court's decision to sentence Li Zhen to death, and read out the order for his execution.Li Zhen, who already knew his death sentence, did not show any expression of panic, and his calmness was incredible.It's just that his face was extremely pale and his eye sockets were sunken, as if he didn't sleep well last night.From his stiff legs and slightly trembling hands behind his back, he could see some of Li Chen's inner fear. The court read Li Zhen's verdict and issued an order to execute Li Zhen, and ordered Li Zhen to be taken to the execution ground immediately after Li Zhen's death.After announcing Li Zhen's crimes, Li Zhen, who had always seemed calm and composed, yelled suddenly. The dean ordered Li Zhen to shut up, but Li Zhen kept yelling, and his hands trembled even more at this moment. His body kept shaking, as if he still wanted to get the last hope of life.When he heard the order from the dean to execute the death penalty immediately, Li Zhen's legs went limp, and he was supported by the two bailiffs behind him.Li Zhen, who completely collapsed, left the public with the last image of weakness and frustration... From 7:40 to 8:10, the court gave Li Zhen half an hour to say goodbye to his mother, brother and sister. Afterwards, Li Zhen was taken to the execution vehicle for lethal injection. At 8:17, the execution was carried out at Jidong Execution Ground. The Jidong execution ground is located in the suburbs, surrounded by towering walls.The execution convoy composed of more than ten vehicles filed in, and the gray iron gate was closed tightly immediately.Two riot police armed with miniature submachine guns were on tight alert. At 8:19, the injection began. Outside the execution ground, crowds of citizens gathered in groups of three or five. The time passed minute by minute. Residents near the execution ground knew that the execution of a death row prisoner usually took no more than 20 minutes, and two or three sounds like firecrackers could be heard outside the wall. sound.People say, "Could it be the death penalty by injection"?A citizen who was in charge of the sanitation of the execution ground said that the injection room for the death penalty is on a vehicle in the execution ground. It is said that an execution vehicle costs 800,000 yuan.The execution vehicle is divided into inside and outside rooms, the inside is the execution room, and the outside is the observation room. During the execution of lethal injection, there are four injections in total, two of which are liquid medicine and the other two are glucose. Each of the four nurses will take one injection into the vein. For the injection, none of the nurses knew whether they were taking liquid medicine or glucose solution. The nurses punctured the vein and then withdrew. The executioner in the observation room pressed the power button of the syringe to push the liquid into the condemned prisoner’s body. Thirty seconds later, the condemned prisoner stopped moving, and then a photo was taken, and the body was put into a plastic bag and transported away. About 2 minutes later, the forensic doctor announced that the execution of Li Zhen's death sentence was completed after the on-the-spot identification was correct. At 8:40, the gray gate of the execution ground was opened. A police car drove out first, and the second car was a funeral car. In less than two minutes, the gray gate was slammed shut again. On November 13th, the life track of 41 years - the first half of Fengyun Jihui's life, Li Zhen, the "First Secretary of Hebei", "Political Wizard", and "Youth Hero", painted his life in Tangshan period. On November 13, 2003, Li Zhen, the former head of the State Taxation Bureau of Hebei Province, known as the "No. 1 Secretary of Hebei Province," was executed by lethal injection. As a result, the lethal injection vehicle has attracted people's attention. Lethal injection is by far the most civilized form of death penalty, and only countries such as China and the United States adopt this method in the world. Compared with execution by shooting, lethal injection has many advantages. Both the executioner and the victim greatly reduce the psychological pressure, and it also relieves the physical pain of the deceased to the greatest extent. It can be said that it is a kind of judicial civilization and progress. China's attempt to execute the death penalty has attracted worldwide attention, but at the same time it is also facing some practical problems: How to confirm the adopter at the stage of using both execution by shooting and lethal injection?At present, the method of execution is mainly decided by the court, and criminals have no right to choose.