China executes South Korean for drug trafficking
China, the world’s top executioner, frequently carries out the death penalty by lethal injection for very serious crimes. – EPA pic, August 5, 2023.
CHINA has executed a South Korean national for drug trafficking, Beijing’s foreign ministry said, the first time such a sentence has been carried out on a citizen of that country in almost a decade. A court in the southern Chinese city of Guangzhou “lawfully pronounced a verdict and executed the South Korean defendant… for drug trafficking” yesterday, the foreign ministry said in a statement.
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