On November 11, Fan Weiqiu, 62, deliberately drove a small SUV through crowds of people exercising outside a sports complex, also injuring 45 in China’s worst such crime since 2014.
State broadcaster CCTV said Monday a Zhuhai court “executed Fan Weiqiu in accordance with the execution order issued by the Supreme People’s Court”.
Fan’s attack sparked widespread public shock and soul-searching in China about the state of society.
At his trial last month, Fan pleaded guilty in front of some of the victims’ families, officials and members of the public, state media said.
It concluded that the methods he used were “particularly cruel, and the consequences particularly severe, posing significant harm to society”.
Violent crime is generally rarer in China than many Western countries, but the country saw a string of mass casualty events last year.
They also carried a shock factor that led some to question perceived social ills such as frustration with a slowing economy, high unemployment and diminishing social mobility.
Xu Jiajin, a 21-year-old former student who attacked a vocational school in the city of Wuxi, was executed “in accordance with the law”, CCTV reported.
Xu was permitted to “meet with his close relatives” before his execution, the broadcaster added.
China classifies death penalty statistics as a state secret, but rights groups including Amnesty believe the country executes thousands every year.
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