Two men were found guilty of murder and executed at...

Two men were found guilty of murder and executed at a city sports stadium, in front of 3,000 people in Huanggang, a rundown city in the central province of Hubei.
The victim was Qi Song, the general manager of the biggest state firm in Huanggang, and the perpetrator was Yi Luo, the 19-year-old son of a worker, whose family used to live next door to the manager and whose father had worked in his firm.
On July 14, 2001 Qi let Yi and a friend into the house and the young man demanded money.When he offered 6,500 yuan (about HK$6,091), Yi said it was not enough and, with his accomplice, hacked him 22 times with a knife, wounding him in the heart, kidney, liver and stomach. He died at once.
The murder of Qi and of two other heads of state factories in Hubei, had a common thread: dissatisfaction over the terms of redundancy given to workers, such as Yi's father, laid off from the plants, and resentment at the wealth and good living enjoyed by the managers among people living on the breadline and with little hope of improving their lot.