Wang Huaizhong, former vice-governor of east China's...

Wang Huaizhong, former vice-governor of east China's Anhui Province, was executed in Jinan after losing an appeal for a lighter penalty in January at the Shandong Provincial Higher People's Court.
He was put to death by lethal injection at the approval of the Supreme People's Court and was allowed to meet his family before the execution.
Wang, 57, had been sentenced to death in December 2003 by the Intermediate People's Court of Jinan, capital of the eastern Shandong Province for taking bribes valued 5.17 million yuan (US$623,000) from 1994 to 2001 and possessing 4.8 million yuan that he could not account for.
He was also deprived of political rights and the court ordered confiscation of all his properties.