From Reuters via the New York Times:
The disgraced chief prosecutor of a district in northwest China has been executed for stabbing his wife to death in her sleep, the Beijing News reported on Sunday.
Chen Ping, former chief prosecutor of Qindu district in Xianyang city, Shaanxi province, was put to death on Saturday after the provincial high court rejected his appeal, the newspaper said without saying how he was executed.
Chen drugged his wife, Wang Ling, tied her hands and feet and stabbed her 21 times in the chest and stomach at their home on September 28, 2003, the daily said. The couple did not get along, it said without elaborating. [Full Text]
Chinese text of original story by The Beijing News
