From The Associated Press, via International Herald Tribune:
A Chinese court has executed a migrant worker for a rampage that left three dead and highlighted resentment over China’s growing gap between rich and poor, state media reported Saturday.
Ai Xuqiang bludgeoned a taxi driver to death with an iron bar on Sept. 11 last year and then drove the stolen taxi to Beijing’s popular upscale shopping street, Wangfujing, running over nine pedestrians and killing two of them, the reports said.
A farmer from Hunan who worked as a laborer in Beijing, Ai told police he “hijacked the car to kill the damn rich and die together on Wangfujing,” the Beijing Morning Post reported. [Full Text]
