CHINA. COUPLE SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR PRODUCING, TRADING DRUGS IN EAST CHINA

a husband and wife were sentenced to death and to life imprisonment respectively in southeast China's Jiangxi Province for making and trafficking drugs. Hu Wei, a 37-year-old chemist who worked in a testing centre of a local college, was convicted of making 30.86 kilograms of Ketamine. The court said it showed leniency in sentencing Hu to life in prison because she was pregnant. The court also fined Hu 100,000 yuan. Her husband, Liu Jun, also 37, was sentenced to death for making and trafficking the drugs.