A man who killed a taxi driver and two pedestrians in downtown
Beijing was executed on Friday.
Ai Xuqiang, a 32-year-old farmer from central China's Henan
Province, bashed a taxi driver to death with a heavy metal bar in
Beijing's Dongcheng District on Sept. 11 last year.
The murderer then stole the taxi and sped along Wangfujing
Street, the city's most glittering shopping thoroughfare, knocking
down nine pedestrians. Two of the nine people were killed.
Beijing's Second Intermediate People's Court convicted Ai of
murder, robbery and jeopardizing public security and sentenced him
to death.
(Xinhua News Agency November 25, 2006)