Two drug traffickers, Wang Dayong and Li Bangcai, were executed by the No.2 Intermediate People's Court of Beijing Tuesday.
From the end of 1999 to April 2000, Wang, a native of Shandong Province, east China, transported and sold dozens of "shaking-headpills", 733 g of crystal methamphetamine (commonly known as "ice"),and 983.46 g of cannabis.
Li, a native of Sichuan Province, southwest China, smuggled from abroad more than 800 g of heroin to the city via Yunnan Province in the southwest.
Wang and Li were both deprived of their personal property and political rights.
Besides, the court sentenced two natives of Xinjian Uygur Autonomous Region to death while two others and a jobless man fromBeijing received a two-year suspended sentence of death for their part in a drug trafficking ring.
Chen Fuchun, a jobless man from the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, was sentenced to life imprisonment, for his voluntary confession of his involvement to the police.
All the six were deprived of their political rights for life and their personal belongings.
(People's Daily June 26, 2002)