The uploader says it was filmed in November 2012, and the WSJ's China Real Time blog says that the people in the village appear to speak a dialect found in Guizhou province. The crowd do not seem shocked or upset by what they see.
The Telegraph translated comments left by Chinese Internet users.
"A life is ended - just like that," read one comment. "I strongly appeal for the abolition of the death penalty."
Another said: "Why shouldn't people be able to see what happens to a death row criminal?"
Others focused on the technicalities: "My understanding is that execution by shooting should only be done with a shot to the heart, never the head." Last year about 3,000 prisoners were executed in China, according to the Dui Hua Foundation, a charity with offices in San Francisco and Hong Kong.
You can watch the video below, but please consider yourselves warned that this obviously features graphic content.
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