Seven people in northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous...

Seven people in northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region were put to death by lethal injection, it was the first time the region had used such a method of execution. Ma Jijun and Yang Zhenhua had been sentenced to death for murder and armed robbery. Liang Juefu, Wu Xiaojun, Memet Eli Imiti, Umar Uxur, Abdulla Abdukerim had been convicted of murder, further details were unavailable.