Man executed for 10 murders

BEIJING - China has executed a man convicted of murdering 10 women

BEIJING - China has executed a man convicted of murdering 10 women. Zhao Gengyun (31), was put to death on July 17th after the Yunnan provincial Higher People's Court rejected his appeal, the Nanjing Daily said in an edition seen in Beijing yesterday.

Zhao was arrested on June 6th and convicted of killing 10 prostitutes in the lakeside town of Dali between May 1994 and May 1996, the newspaper said.

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