Authorities
in western China have executed 11 people, among them a bus driver
who hit and killed 2 people while driving at night with his lights
off, a state-run newspaper said. The 10 other people executed
Tuesday by gunshot in Urumqi, capital of the western Xinjiang
region, were convicted of crimes including drug peddling, murder,
robbery, and stealing and trafficking guns and ammunition, the
Xinjiang Daily said in a report seen Sunday in Beijing. (Rick
Halperin News)
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