China 'executes dam protester'
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China has secretly executed a man who protested against the controversial Pubugou dam project, his lawyer says.
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BEIJING - A Chinese court has executed a gang leader convicted of selling more than 200 baby girls, a newspaper reported today. Li Guoju was put to death yesterday by a court in the central city of Puyang, the Beijing Times reported.
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A man armed with a knife has gone on the rampage and killed eight people at a school in central China, state media is reporting. The attack happened overnight in Ruzhou, a city in Henan province, the Xinhua news agency said.
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A Chinese company chairman is sentenced to death for running a scam involving giant ants.
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Zhao Ziyang, a Chinese leader purged for his support of the 1989 Tiananmen Square pro-democracy movement, remained in a deep coma Sunday, according to a human rights activist in contact with his family, but state media did not disclose the ailing leader's condition to the Chinese public.
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China plans to release a prominent imprisoned dissident this week, cutting short his sentence in an apparent "conciliatory gesture" by the government of President Hu Jintao, a human rights group said Tuesday.
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China will expand the use of lethal injections to replace execution by gunshot, state media said on Thursday of a country which kills more convicts than anywhere else.
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China has executed a former state banker for embezzlement and accepting bribes, state media said on Wednesday, days after a senior Communist Party official was put to death for blowing up his mistress with a car bomb.
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China should reduce the number of death sentences it carries out, but the world's leading executioner of prisoners cannot afford to do away with capital punishment altogether, the country's top legal bodies said.
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An Afghan court sentences to death three men for killing 11 Chinese road workers in Kunduz in June.
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Text of report in English by official Chinese news agency Xinhua (New China News Agency)  Hefei, 24 September: A Chinese local court has sentenced a former county party chief from the eastern province of Anhui to life imprisonment for taking bribes.
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A woman convicted in the largest case  of drug trafficking in China's capital in more than 50 years  was executed on Tuesday, Chinanews.com news Web site reported.
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At least 24 people are questioned in China following the death of a man who filmed a local dispute.
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Texas executed a man by lethal injection on Tuesday for strangling his wife and her mother.
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Twenty-four people have been held over the killing of a man in central China that has reignited calls to abolish the agency whose staff were allegedly involved in the death, state press reported Wednesday.
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Beijing - Chinese police have detained a man who they say murdered eight teenagers and injured four others in a school dormitory overnight, state press said late on Friday.
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One man is sentenced to death and 28 jailed for involvement in a slave labour scandal in northern China.