CHINA EXECUTES MAN FOR KILLING 15-YEAR-OLD

real estate employee Song Feiran, of Songxi Village, Xi'an, was executed for killing He An, 15, following a land dispute in northwest China' s Shaanxi Province. Feiran had been hired to intimidate villagers who refused to move in late June, 2007. The Xi'an Intermediate People' s Court sentenced Feiran to death on November 28, 2008, which was upheld by the Shaanxi Provincial Higher People' s Court in November 2009.