On June 30, Zhou Xia, 36, a female drug dealer was...

On June 30, Zhou Xia, 36, a female drug dealer was executed in the city of Anshan, one of China's steel production bases in the northeastern province of Liaoning. She was convicted of purchasing heroin from the border area of southwest China's Yunnan Province in March 1997, and, with the assistance of her husband, selling the drug to addicts in Anshan for a profit of 6,000 yuan (about $750).