Two executed for murder

China yesterday executed two members of a banned religious cult, a father and his daughter, for murdering a woman in a McDonald’s restaurant after she rebuffed an apparent recruitment attempt by the group, state media said. The 37-year-old woman, surnamed Wu, was attacked last May in the eastern province of Shandong by members of the Church of Almighty God, which had preached that a global apocalypse would take place in 2012. The case sparked a national outcry after it was revealed that Wu was beaten to death for refusing to give her telephone number to members of the group. Zhang Fan and her father, Zhang Lidong, were put to death after the Supreme Court approved their sentence.

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