The rally had originally been scheduled to show support for the national anti-crime campaign Take Back the Night.
Courts in China's largest cities have begun using lethal injection as a means of executing some of the thousands of people being put to death in the country's current anti-crime campaign.
Most of those executed are not political prisoners but people swept up in a succession of anti-crime campaigns.
It was dedicated to Angelo Vassallo, an Italian mayor murdered for his anti-crime campaign.
It said the number of executions this year was the highest since 1983, when an anti-crime campaign resulted in 5,000 to 10,000 executions.
Close to 6,000 people, amongst whom were wealthy businessmen, government advisers, crime bosses and senior police officers have been arrested in Wang's anti-crime campaigns since 2009.
I salute the anti-crime campaigns conducted by our organizations.
Occasionally during anti-crime campaigns in the past, executions have been shown on television, but that did not happen today.
Just before leaving office in mid-December, the interim Prime Minister, Reneta Indzhova, acknowledged that despite her anti-crime campaign, she had been unable to crack the problem.
Taking time out from her anti-crime campaign, Gilkey turns a visit to her mother, Emma Green, into a call-and-response of urban memory.