A former assistant defense engineer identified as Liu has been sentenced to death for selling classified intelligence on China's J-35A fifth-generation stealth fighter to foreign intelligence agencies. Ironically, China developed the J-35A by stealing US plans for the F-35. China executes more people per year than all nations combined. Below is a mobile execution van used by the Chinese authorities. Better tradecraft is to incarcerate Liu for life, as he may have other secrets to divulge or Liu can be traded for a captured Chinese spy in the future. Unfortunately, Beijing thinks this execution will set an example to deter future espionage.