Man executed for murder of judge 14 years ago

A man who abducted and killed a judge in Xuanhan county, Sichuan province, 14 years ago, was executed on Friday, Western China Metropolis Daily reported.

Qin Youkuang, 46, a resident of the village of Gaoti in Xuanhan, cursed at and attacked the village Party chief during a village meeting in November 1998. In December of that year, the Party chief took the case to a court in the county.

On the morning of June 16, 1999, several judges arrived in Qin’s home to announce the verdict. Qin organized a dozen people with knives, hoes and sticks to imprison the judges. The next morning, Qin killed one of the judges and ran away to Chongqing municipality.

He later changed his name and ran a pig farm in Hubei province. In December 2011, police from Xuanhan detained him in a town in Jingzhou, Hubei.