a court in central China has sentenced Li Litian, a policeman...

a court in central China has sentenced Li Litian, a policeman, to death and another to life in prison for the contract killing of Li Shengli, a laid-off worker, in return for a free meal, according to news reports. A third defendant, Lu Liusheng, a court official in Henan province, was given a death sentence suspended for two years for ordering the murder. Lu had a personal feud with the victim, Li Shengli, and asked the policemen to teach him a lesson. Li Shengli was detained on a false charge, beaten unconscious and thrown him from the third floor of a police station in September 2004.