Impeccance announced 18 years after man executed for rape, murder

Li Sanren (L) and Shang Aiyun, parents of Huugjilt who was executed in a controversial 1996 rape and murder case, receive legal document on retrial in Hohhot, capital of north China's Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, Dec. 15, 2014. (Xinhua/Ren Junchuan)

An impeccance verdict was given on Monday at a retrial 18 years after a man was sentenced to death and executed in a controversial 1996 rape and murder case in north China's Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region.

Zhao Jianping, deputy head of the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Regional Higher People's Court, on Monday announced the innocence of Huugjilt, and apologized to his parents.

Huugjilt, who was 18 at the time, was found guilty of raping and murdering a woman in a public toilet in Hohhot on April 9, 1996. He was was sentenced to death and executed in June 1996.