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 | Tuesday, April 18, 2000, updated at 09:49(GMT+8) | ||||||||||||
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Murderer of 3 Pupils Executed in Central China CityJin Xiangwu, the owner of a video-game parlor who was convicted of murdering three primary school students, was executed in Luoyang City of central China's Henan Province, announced China's Supreme People's Court on April 17.On February 27, the three victims, who were sixth graders at the Number One Primary School of the Luoyang Bearings Group, were playing video games at Jin's game room when they discovered they could not pay the 2.5 yuan (about 0.30 U.S. dollars) they owed, and soon left. Jin called them back to the parlor, pretending to let them continue playing the game for free, and then beat them slaughtered them. Afterwards, Jin and his elder brother Jin Xiangyu took their bodies to a gully in Yiyang County near Luoyang, and burned the corpses. On March 5, the two brothers who had hidden themselves in northeast China's Liaoning Province were arrested by police. Later, Jin Xiangwu was sentenced to death by a local court in Luoyang for murdering and his brother given 10 years in prison for the crime of shield. The Higher People's Court of Henan Province then checked and approved the death penalty for Xin Xiangwu and turned down an appeal from his elder brother Jin Xiangyu.
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