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Sun
China
executes 4 drug traffickers
4
heroin traffickers have been executed and another was given a death
sentence with a 2-year reprieve in China's eastern Zhejiang province,
state media said today.
Wang
Daohua, Yin Yaxiong, Zhu Zhongfa and Zheng Qiukang were put to death
Wednesday after being convicted by a Jinhua city court of organizing,
transporting and selling 76.3 kilograms of heroin from 2001 to 2002.
Wang Yan, another gang member, was given a death sentence with a
2-year reprieve, the Xinhua news agency said.
The
gang was accused of buying drugs from southwest Yunnan province and
transporting them to Shanghai. Another 7 members of the gang were
still at large, Xinhua said.
Earlier
this week, a Chinese parliamentary delegate said China executes around
10,000 people every year, about 5 times more than all the other death
penalty cases from around the world combined.
While
China is notorious for its liberal use of the death penalty, it
officially maintains that the number of people executed each year is a
closely guarded state secret.
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