Killer sentenced to death penalty

A court in East China's Zhejiang province on July 26 sentenced a man who killed and dismembered a person to the death penalty.

While driving a motor tricycle at around 4 pm on Sep 18, 2011, carrying pork to a market in Jiaxing city, Yi Tingman, from Sichuan province, ran down the victim surnamed Gan, who was riding a bicycle.

Yi got off his motor tricycle and saw that Gan was badly injured.

Instead of providing assistance, he loaded the victim and the bicycle onto his tricycle and ran away. He later killed Gan with a hammer and a knife.

To cover up the crime, he first hid Gan's body, and then went back at night to dismember the body with a borrowed butcher's knife.

Yi then placed the body parts in four bags and discarded them, according to the Jiaxing Intermediate People's Court.

In May, Yi and his lawyer pleaded for a lighter sentence but were turned down by the court.