Zhao Liping, a former senior political advisor and police chief of north China's Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, was sentenced to death for murder, bribery and possession of fire arms and explosives on Friday.
Zhao was also stripped of his political rights and had personal property worth two million yuan (293,535 U.S. dollars) confiscated, according to a statement from the Taiyuan City Intermediate People's Court in China's central Shanxi Province.
