a man convicted of pushing six Chinese women to their deaths...

a man convicted of pushing six Chinese women to their deaths in a bid to escape the coast guard was executed, the judiciary said. Wang Chung-hsing was executed at a Taichung prison. Wang and his crew forced 20 young women to jump into the sea as a coast guard vessel approached their ship off the west coast in August 2003. Rescue workers later found the bodies of six women. As the ring leader, Wang was sentenced to death, while three of his crew members received prison sentences. Appeals failed to overturn the death penalty for Wang, but he never accepted his sentence, a coroner said. "Snakeheads" smuggle Chinese illegal migrants across the Taiwan Strait in boats. Many such women end up working in hostess bars and brothels.