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    China Executions 2013

    A Chinese serial killer said to have chopped up his victims and sold the flesh at a market was executed on Thursday, state media reported, after a court found him guilty of murdering 11 people.

    News reports from China and Hong Kong said Zhang Yongming, 57, sold the remains to unsuspecting consumers near his home village in southwest China, where he was known as the "Cannibal Monster".

    Zhang was "escorted to an execution site and executed" on Thursday, state-run news agency Xinhua said.

    The killer, who was previously jailed for murder and released in 1997, "cut his victims into pieces to cover his tracks" and was sentenced to death by a court in the southwestern city of Kunming in July, an earlier Xinhua report said.

    Cannibalism is a particularly sensitive subject in China. It was practised as a survival tactic during periods of mass starvation, including in the wake of the Great Leap Forward, a failed industrialisation drive launched in the late 1950s.

    A local newspaper quoted residents of Zhang's village as saying they had seen green plastic bags hanging from his home, with what appeared to be white bones protruding from the top.

    Hong Kong newspaper The Standard had said police discovered human eyeballs preserved inside wine bottles -- "like snake wine" -- and pieces of what appeared to be human flesh hanging up to dry when they entered Zhang's home.

    Police feared that Zhang had fed human flesh to his three dogs while selling other parts on the market, calling it "ostrich meat", according to The Standard.

    China does not publish execution statistics. US-based advocacy group the Duihua foundation estimated that it executed around 4,000 prisoners in 2011, a 50 percent drop since 2007.

    http://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/chi...&NewsCatID=356
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    China Executes 4 Foreigners Over Mekong Murders

    China executed four foreigners Friday for the killing of 13 Chinese sailors in an attack on the Mekong River, following a live nationwide broadcast showing them being led to their deaths that harkened back to the mass public execution rallies of past years.

    State broadcaster CCTV showed the four being led from their cells at a jail in southwestern Yunnan province's capital of Kunming at about 2 p.m. (0600 GMT) prior to their execution by lethal injection. In shackles and handcuffs, they were trussed with a rope binding their arms behind their backs before being placed into court vans and driven to execution chambers.

    Their deaths were announced two hours later by the Yunnan provincial police department.

    Accused ringleader Naw Kham and accomplices Hsang Kham, Yi Lai, and Zha Xiha were found guilty of the murder of 13 Chinese sailors in an October 201, attack on the Mekong River. The four are of Myanmar, Thai, Laotian, and unknown nationality. Two others were given suspended death sentences for their parts in the killings.

    Friday's live broadcast was unusual because China has mostly abandoned the once common practice of parading condemned criminals before crowds in stadiums and through city streets on the way to execution grounds on the edge of cities.

    The decision to broadcast was a response to widespread outrage among the Chinese public over the killings, as well as an attempt to emphasize both the heinousness of the crime and the efficiency of China's police and courts in doling out justice to the four, said professor Yu Guoming of the School of Mass Media at Beijing's Renmin University.

    "The brutality of Naw Kham in the killing really got ordinary Chinese people riled up. It's no wonder that it has attracted such huge attention from the public," Yu said.

    The gang was accused of ambushing two flat-bottomed Chinese cargo ships on the upper reaches of the Mekong on Oct. 5, 2011, in Myanmar waters infested with gangs that make their livings from protection rackets and the production and smuggling of heroin, methamphetamine and other drugs. The Mekong flows south from Yunnan through the infamous Golden Triangle region, where the borders of Myanmar, Laos and Thailand meet, and provides a vital trade and transportation route between southwestern China and Southeast Asia.

    The ships were recovered downriver later the same day by Thai police following a gun battle with gang members, and the bodies of the 13 dead, some of whom were bound by the hands before being stabbed and shot, were fished from the river over the following days. Methamphetamines were found on the boats, leading to speculation they had been hijacked as part of a drug smuggling plot.

    However, gang members later testified the killings were in retaliation for the ships refusing to pay protection money and allowing themselves to be used by Thai and Laotian soldiers in attacks on warlord bases. They said the drugs were placed on board to make it look like there had been a struggle between smugglers.

    China's Public Security Ministry made the case a top priority and Naw was arrested in Laos on April 25 last year and turned over to China the following month along with his accomplices. Because the killings took place on board Chinese flagged vessels, Beijing, whose massive economy and powerful military gives it considerable sway over its smaller southern neighbors, ruled the trials should take place in China.

    Months after the killings, China established a multinational river patrol mechanism headquartered in Yunnan, which Beijing claims has been effective in clamping down on such bloody incidents.

    "The case set a precedent that China would vigorously pursue criminals who commit crimes against its nationals. That's led to an expansion of Chinese police powers into the neighboring region and a big boost in Chinese influence," said Jin Canrong, associate dean of Renmin University's School of International Studies.

    http://abcnews.go.com/International/...rders-18625756
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    Central China Bank Blast Killer Executed

    The man behind a botched robbery's fatal bombing in the central Chinese city of Wuhan in 2011 was executed on Friday morning, a local court said.

    Wang Haijian and two accomplices attempted to rob a cash truck using homemade explosives in Wuhan on Dec. 1, 2011, said the People's Intermediate Court in Wuhan.

    Wang detonated the explosives with a remote control device and fled the crime scene after the robbery failed.

    The explosion killed a 16 year old and a 20 year old, slightly injuring 15 other people.

    Wang Haijian's two accomplices, Wang Wei and Wang An'an, were jailed for 10 years and six years, respectively, for jointly plotting the bank robbery.

    http://english.cri.cn/6909/2013/03/01/2561s751283.htm
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    Axe murderer executed

    Zhao Fuli, 45, who killed a couple in Shunyi district in 2010, was executed Thursday on the order of Beijing Second Intermediate People's Court, the Legal Mirror reported.

    Zhao killed a couple, with whom he had a property dispute, on March 4, 2010. He attacked them with an axe and hammered 15-centimeter-long nails into their heads, later dumping their bodies in a wood.

    http://www.globaltimes.cn/content/765078.shtml
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    Official executed for raping 11 underage girls

    An official in central China's Henan Province was executed on Tuesday for raping 11 underage girls, sources with the Henan Provincial Higher People's Court confirmed Wednesday.

    Li Xingong, former deputy secretary general of the Yongcheng city committee of the Communist Party of China (CPC) , was arrested in May 2012 on charges of raping several adolescent girls starting from the second half of 2011.

    The Shangqiu City Intermediate People's Court later sentenced Li to death for raping the adolescents and deprived him of his political rights for life.

    Li appealed but was denied by the Henan Provincial Higher People's Court. The execution was approved by the Supreme People's Court.

    The case triggered widespread public outrage on the Internet after its exposure.

    The execution was carried out at a time when China has vowed to beef up protection for juveniles following a series of sexual abuse cases involving children.

    The Supreme People's Court announced last month that courts across the country will come down harder on crimes committed against juveniles, show minimal tolerance toward such offenders and offer the greatest level of protection possible for children.

    http://www.china.org.cn/china/2013-0...t_29165770.htm

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    Ahead of International Drug Day, China Executes 6

    Chinese authorities have once again commemorated the UN International Day Against Drug Abuse and Illicit Trafficking by stepping up their drug enforcement efforts.

    Ahead of the UN anti-drug day on Wednesday, Xinhua News Agency reports that six men were executed in China on Tuesday for separate drug-trafficking charges. Another four individuals were given death sentences, the report said.

    Two of the men who were put to death on Tuesday were tried in Fujian Province. The first man was convicted of hiring people to help him smuggle nearly 5 kilograms of methamphetamine back in 2010. After being arrested he was found in possession of five firearms.

    The second individual tried in Fujian Province was convicted of buying and selling 1.78 kg of heroin in Guangzhou, the capital city of Guangdong Province. His case also dates back to 2010.

    The third individual who was put to death on Tuesday was convicted in 2011 of transporting 3 kg of methamphetamine from Hubei Province to Wuhan in southeastern Zhejiang province.

    In all three cases the People’s Supreme Court approved the death sentences, the paper said.

    In addition, three men were executed in Hainan Province on Tuesday, for trafficking methamphetamine, ketamine and heroin.

    The newspaper also said that the Intermediate People's Court of Wenzhou City handed out death sentences for two men who separately trafficked heroin and methamphetamine, without giving further details on the amount of drugs or the dates of their trials. Then, in Yunnan Province, six individuals were convicted of trafficking methamphetamine, four of whom were sentenced to death.

    This followed reports over the weekend that 251 individuals had been arrested by police in Heilongjiang Province in northeastern China, for participating in a two-year drug trafficking campaign that stretched from Sichuan, Yunnan and Guangdong to Heilongjiang Province. Xinhua quoted the police chief as saying that 16.5 kg of methamphetamine and more than 5,500 methamphetamine tablets had been seized in the bust. Already this year, China has sentenced nearly 31,000 individuals for drug-related offenses this year, about a quarter of whom received jail terms of five years or more.

    China has a history of stepping up drug enforcement ahead of the UN International Day Against Drug Abuse and Illicit Trafficking, which falls on June 26 each year. According to the Death Penalty Information Center, a Washington-based non-profit that is seen as leaning towards opposing capital punishment, in the week leading up to June 26, 2010, China executed no less than 59 individuals for drug-related offenses. On the actual day itself, 20 people were put to death.

    According to China’s criminal law code, death sentences can be handed out for anyone caught “smuggling, trafficking in, transporting or manufacturing opium of not less than 1,000 grams, or heroin or methyl benzedrine of not less than 50 grams or other narcotic drugs of large quantities.” There is also a fifteen year mandatory sentence (up to a life sentence) and the confiscation of all one’s property for anyone caught smuggling narcotics in these quantities.

    China’s harsh justice towards drug traffickers reflects both its geographical location and burgeoning drug problem. With regards to geography, China is sits atop both of Asia’s drug-producing region. Towards southern China is the “Golden Triangle,” consisting of Myanmar, Laos and Thailand, which once produced half of the world’s opiates and now is famous for its vibrant methamphetamine trade.

    Whatever the Golden Triangle has lost in its own opiate production has been more than compensated for by the Golden Crescent, centered around Afghanistan, Pakistan, and Iran to the west of China. By some estimates, Afghanistan alone accounts for 90 percent of the world’s non-pharmaceutical grade poppy production.

    The presence of foreign drug smuggling in China immediately conjures up images of the British opium campaign against China in the 19th century. Perhaps because of these bitter memories, the Chinese government has not shied away from administering harsh penalties—including the death penalty—to foreign nationals caught trafficking narcotics in the country.

    Still, China has also sought to deal with the issue by working its neighbors, most of whom also have an interest in addressing the narcotics issues they face. In April of this year, for instance, China launched a month-long anti-drug campaign with Laos, Myanmar and Thailand along the Mekong River. According to China’s Ministry of Public Security, this resulted in 1,100 arrests in 804 drug-related cases.

    None of this is enough to tackle the amount of drug abuse that has pervaded China in recent years. Although the Chinese government was able to virtually eliminate narcotics usage during the Maoist era, as the country has opened its borders and income has risen, the drug problem has returned in China—with a vengeance. According to the government in Beijing, the number of registered drug addicts in China rose from 150,000 in 1991 to 1,545,000 in 2010. A mind-boggling 70 percent of these were addicted to heroin, contributing to a steep rise in HIV levels.

    On Wednesday, Chinese authorities announced that the number of registered drug addicts in the country has now topped 2 million.

    http://thediplomat.com/china-power/a...na-executes-6/
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    DFA exec: Pinay drug courier executed in China

    China has executed the 35-year-old Filipina drug courier who was caught carrying at least six kilos of heroin in China in January 2011, the Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) confirmed Wednesday.

    “It is with profound sadness that we confirm that our fellow Filipino was executed in China this morning," said Foreign Affairs spokesman Raul Hernandez, who declined to reveal the identity of the Filipino upon the request of her family.

    "Arrangements for the repatriation of the remains are being undertaken,” he added.

    The Filipina was caught with 6.198 kilos of heroin in her luggage at the Hangzhou International Airport on January 25, 2011.

    At that time, she was traveling from Dubai in the United Arab Emirates with her 27-year-old male cousin who was also caught carrying 6.171 kilos of heroin.

    China’s Supreme People’s Court also meted the death penalty on the cousin but with two-year reprieve, meaning it can be reduced to life imprisonment if he displays good behavior while in detention.

    In China, possession of at least 50 grams of illegal drugs is enough to warrant a death penalty usually done via lethal injection.

    The Filipina was the fifth Filipino drug courier to be punished by death in China since 2011.

    DFA spokesman Raul Hernandez told reporters last week that in China alone, there are 213 drug-related cases involving Filipino nationals.

    Of this figure, 28 resulted in death penalty convictions with two-year reprieve, 67 in life imprisonment and 107 termed imprisonment while 10 are still pending in courts.

    Recruited by a Nigerian

    Hernandez earlier said the Filipina was recruited by an unidentified Nigerian to smuggle in drugs to various countries.

    Hernandez said the "preponderance of the evidence was so large that the decision was to give her the death penalty sentence."

    The DFA spokesman said the Chinese court pointed out that the Filipina, who had been travelling to China as a tourist, had allegedly been "been doing this for 18 times since 2008."

    She was reportedly paid from $3,000 to $4,000 (roughly P129,000 to P172,000) per trip after successfully smuggling drugs from Dubai to Hongkong and China.

    When she was caught in 2011, the Filipina claimed that she did not know there was heroin in the luggage, Hernandez said.

    “The Philippines respects Chinese law and their verdict of the Supreme People’s Court on the case. The Philippine government itself has a strong anti-illegal drug policy and is closely cooperating with law enforcement agencies in China and in other countries on efforts against drug trafficking,” Hernandez said.

    PNoy's appeal

    The Philippines on Thursday last week appealed to the Chinese government to spare the life of the Filipina drug courier.

    President Benigno Aquino III conveyed the request to commute her sentence to life imprisonment through a letter to Chinese President Xi Jinping, which was coursed through the Chinese Embassy in Manila and the Philippine Embassy in Beijing.

    Vice President Jejomar Binay earlier intended to go to China to plead for the life of the Filipina. However, his trip on Sunday failed to push through as China did not allow it.

    In a statement on his Facebook account, Binay, the presidential adviser on overseas Filipino worker concerns, said he was informed on Saturday by China’s foreign affairs ministry that it was “not a convenient time” for him to visit China.

    Other Pinoys executed in China

    In March 2011, three Filipinos—Ramon Credo, Sally Ordinario-Villanueva, and Elizabeth Batain—were executed in China via lethal injection for possession of illegal drugs.

    Credo and Villanueva were executed in Xiamen, while Batain was executed in Guangzhou on March 30 that year.

    On May 24, 2008, Batain was caught smuggling 6,800 grams of heroin in Shenzhen.

    In the same year, Villanueva was caught on December 24 smuggling 4,110 grams of heroin in Xiamen, while Credo was caught four days later smuggling 4,113 grams of heroin in the same place.

    In December 2011, a 35-year-old Filipino was also executed in China for bringing 1.5 kilos of heroin to the country.

    http://www.gmanetwork.com/news/story...cuted-in-china
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    Woman executed for poisoning milk in NW China

    LANZHOU, July 3 (Xinhua) -- A woman received a lethal injection on Tuesday for lacing milk with nitrite which killed three children and sickened more than 30 others in northwest China, a local court said Wednesday.

    Ma Xiuling and her husband Wu Guangquan, two dairy farmers from Pingliang City, Gansu Province, deliberately added nitrite, an industrial salt, to fresh milk produced by a business rival in April 2011, according to a statement from the Pingliang Municipal Intermediate People's Court.

    Ma and Wu committed the act against their competitor, another couple, after several business disputes, it said.

    A one-month-old baby and two children under two died after drinking the poisonous milk.

    In November 2011, Ma was sentenced to death by the Pingliang court for intentionally poisoning milk and Wu was given life in prison for purchasing the poison.

    In June 2012, the Gansu Provincial High People's Court upheld the verdict after the couple appealed.

    http://english.peopledaily.com.cn/90882/8309496.html

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    Anger after Chinese court executes businessman without telling family



    A Chinese court executed a man on death row without notifying his family and then defended its actions, sparking anger online, local media reported on Sunday.

    Businessman Zeng Chengjie was executed on Friday after being sentenced in 2011 for fraud and illegal fundraising involving 3.4 billion yuan (HK$4.3 billion), the Beijing Times said.

    His daughter complained on Sina Weibo that the court in Changsha, central China, had not notified the family beforehand.

    The court replied via its own weibo account on Saturday, saying: “The law does not have a written rule that convicts being executed must see their families.”

    It generated criticism online with users criticising the “ice cold” response.

    The court then apologised in a second post, stressing that its weibo account managers had not studied the law closely enough, the Beijing Times said.

    It later issued a third post, saying Zeng was given the option to see his family but declined.

    Weibo users dismissed the court’s replies – which along with all other posts on its account were later blocked from view – though netizens and media outlets shared images of the earlier statements.

    Zeng’s daughter said: “Everything they did should be condemned.”

    The controversy comes as China’s leaders have called for a more credible judiciary, even although it is largely beholden to political authorities.

    “China has a long, long way to go before it has the rule of law,” weibo user Lin Lvshan wrote.

    Xu Xin, a law professor, wrote online that the court had “severely damaged public confidence in judicial bodies”.

    China’s new leader Xi Jinping has called in recent months for a fairer and more transparent judiciary that delivers justice for ordinary Chinese.

    But China’s courts lack independence. Many cases, particularly sensitive ones, are decided beforehand by political authorities, and the country’s conviction rate is high.

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    Death for Chinese killer of 'ghost bride'

    A MAN who murdered a pregnant woman in China to sell her corpse as a "ghost bride" has been executed, state media reports.

    Wang Hairong was put to death earlier this week, the Legal Daily said, citing a court in Yan'an in the northern province of Shaanxi.

    Wang and two accomplices persuaded a woman, identified only by her surname Luo, to accept a lift in their car in May 2011 and strangled her, the report said on Thursday. She was pregnant at the time.

    They drove to a nearby town and sold Luo's body for 22,000 yuan ($A3946) to a family as a bride for their dead son in a "ghost marriage", it said.

    Wang took 14,000 yuan, with the rest of the money divided between the other two, it added.

    Marriage is an important part of Chinese society. While the practice is increasingly rare, "ghost" weddings are still carried out by some families in parts of Shaanxi and neighbouring Shanxi.

    If a young adult son dies before having had a chance to marry, he will be buried next to a woman after a wedding ceremony of sorts, to prevent the man's spirit being lonely in the afterlife and bringing misfortune on his family.

    In March Chinese media reported that four people had been jailed for digging up corpses to sell as ghost brides.

    http://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/new...-1226685171511

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