In January, in the northwestern region of Xinjiang,...

In January, in the northwestern region of Xinjiang, a man was executed for stabbing a Communist Party cadre to death and wounding the official's wife, daughter and mother-in-law. The convict had blamed the cadre for his 2-year imprisonment for hooliganism. Chuang Weihua, jailed for 7 years in the 1980s for burglary and robbery, and Pu Huxiong, previously jailed for robbery, were executed at Helong in the northeastern province of Jilin. They were accused of the 1994 murders of 5 people, including a Taiwan Businessman.