CHINA’S LEADING STATE-RUN NEWS AGENCY LEFT WITH EGG ON ITS FACE TRYING TO SMEAR U.S.

It appears as though nothing can embarrass Chinese news officials who keep blundering in attempts to show the West in a bad light.

BLUNDERING CHINESE OFFICIALS RELEASE HORRIFYING PICTURES OF U.S. EXECUTION BY LETHAL INJECTION ONLY TO DISCOVER PICTURES ARE FROM PORN MOVIE
Claiming it was a real American execution, pictures showed a woman injected with liquid and then shaking in pain as she dies

By Anna Edwards

Mail Online
August 7, 2013

Blundering Chinese officials who attempted to smear the West by publishing pictures of a 'real execution' in America have accidentally posted grabs from a porn film.

China's leading state-run news agency Xinhua posted the screen shots on its website - claiming it shows an execution in the United States.

The slideshow of 38 photos shows a women being taken to a chair, where a doctor injects a dark liquid into her right arm.

The women is then seen shaking in pain as she suffers a slow, tortuous death.

However, the propaganda appears ti to actually come from a hardcore pornographic film called Lethal Injection.

Global Times, a staunchly nationalistic daily, also featured the slideshow of screenshots called: 'Record of a female inmate's execution - exposing the world's darkest side' on its homepage.

Earlier versions of the photos shared online claimed the photos are revelations by a US executioner named 'Mark'.

But the blog Out Of My Face identified the source of the pictures as a pornographic film called Lethal Injection.

Chinese state-run news organizations have a history of inaccuracies. Xinhua, the People's Daily online and other websites have previously published inappropriate photos series.

During the National Congress of the Communist Party in November, which marked the leadership transition from Hu Jintao to Xi Jinping, it published a series of photos of 'beautiful ritual girls, female reporters and delegates' which they named 'Beautiful scenery'.

Last year, the People's Daily's website featured a photo series of the most beautiful women executed in China over the last three decades.

And the country can hardly 'expose the dark side of the world' when it allegedly executed more people than the rest of the world combined, according to estimates by Amnesty International.

In chilling echoes of the 'gas-wagon' project pioneered by the Nazis to slaughter criminals, the mentally ill and Jews a mobile execution service was launched quietly six years ago.

It was then hushed up to prevent an international row about the abuse of human rights before the Olympics in 2008 but the vehicles were then deployed across China in 2009.

Developed by Jinguan Auto, which also makes bullet-proof limousines for the new rich in this vast country of 1.3 billion people, the vans appear unremarkable.

They cost £60,000, can reach top speeds of 80mph and look like a police vehicle on patrol. Inside, however, the 'death vans' look more like operating theatres.

Convicted criminals in China can be put to death for 55 capital crimes, ranging from theft to crimes against the state.

Such is the huge number of executions, they were turned into a television show six years ago.

A TV channel in Henan province in central China began broadcasting Interviews Before Execution quickly became a hit with viewers and was given a prime-time Saturday night slot.

A presenter interviews the condemned, hearing them confess their crimes, weep and ask for messages to be relayed to their families.

The cameras keep rolling as the convicted say a farewell message and are led away to be killed by firing squad or lethal injection.