The executioners are armed with rifles carrying bayonets and they stand about two steps away from the condemned. |
Most likely it was some tradition from the days long ago when the executioners would personally behead the criminals. |
Near them are statues of the three executioners Bao employed to put different ranks of criminals to death. |
As they leave, a white liquid giving off a gas slowly seeps from the left and we discover these men are executioners and this is a death chamber. |
There were interviews with executioners who described the process that was unfolding behind the prison walls. |
The military will act as interrogators, prosecutors, defense counsel, judges, and when death sentences are imposed, as executioners. |