Executed man not guilty: court (3/5)
2014-12-15 14:59
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Web Editor:Yao Lan
Li Sanren (L) and Shang Aiyun (C), parents of Huugjilt who was executed in a controversial 1996 rape and murder case, sign the legal document on retrial in Hohhot, capital of North China's Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, Dec. 15, 2014. An impeccance verdict was given on Monday at the retrial 18 years after Huugjilt was sentenced to death and executed in 1996. 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. After Huugjilt was sentenced to death and executed in June 1996, another alleged serial rapist and killer, Zhao Zhihong, confessed to the murder after he was arrested in 2005. [Photo/ Liu Wenhua]