From ifeng:

10 beauties given the death penalty and executed over the past nearly 30 years

19-years-old (some say 23-years-old) Ren Xue from Henan Luoyang [above], young and beautiful, the younger sister to two older brothers. Her eldest brother had a relationship with the eldest daughter of a certain local mine manager surnamed Ding and met opposition by the Ding family including the Ding family’s younger daughter. Afterward, her brother disappeared without a trace, his fate unknown. Ren Xue had a relationship with a certain college student while at school, even becoming pregnant with a child, but was dumped. After a physical fight with her boyfriend, she became disfigured and her disposition became oversensitive and antisocial. Owing to her family not having any connections, Ren Xue had no job whereas the Ding family’s second daughter did despite having inferior academic scores. Photo is of the last moments of Ren Xue’s life.

Ren Xue sold her body to mine manager Ding, but mine manager Ding only arranged a waitress job for her. Afterward, mine manager Ding was reported for tax evasion, and the head of the working group that came took a fancy to Ren Xue, with intentions to have her. Mine manager Ding alternated between coercion and inducements, threatening that if she refused to submit herself, she would end up like her elder brother missing with an unknown fate, whereas if she did, she could get a good job. Yet after Ren Xue submitted, there was no good job, because mine manager Ding knew it was better to control Ren Xue by keeping her as a waitress. A furious Ren Xue, working with good friend Cao Linlin, tricked the Ding family’s second daughter out and killed her. Photo: Ren Xue taken before she was sentenced to death.

Murderer Liu Jinfeng, female, 20-years-old, with only primary school education, born 1975 in Luge Village of Tuhuai Township in Yuncheng city of Shanxi province, executed according to law 1995 in Xianyang. Liu Jinfeng was abused by her father ever since childhood, was driven out of the family by her uncle and stepfather after her mother died, and from that point on was homeless on the streets. Homeless, she was taken in but then suffered sexual assault and was then forced to have an abortion. After being arrested during an anti-prostitution sweep and serving a year in prison, she was sent back to her hometown, where her stepfather sold her for 1000 kuai to a Mr. Li in Xiling village of Qingyang county in Shaanxi province. Afterward, Mr. Li resold her to a Mr. Hu, a local despot/bully.

Hu was violent and abusive by nature, an alcoholic, always beating Liu Jinfeng when drunk. From 1992 to 1993, unable to put up with Hu’s humiliation and abuse, Liu Jinfeng sought opportunities to escape multiple times, but was caught and beaten every time. Hu even made a 5kg metal chain to lock Liu Jinfeng at home for long periods of time. At the beginning of 1994, Liu Jinfeng again attempted to escape. After being pursued several kilometers, she was recaptured by Hu who then broke her right leg and thereafter shackled her to a bed. Hu left the village for business but before he left, he entrusted his cousins, a certain Tang and Guan, with custody over Liu Jinfeng. The two of them instead took the opportunity to rape Liu Jinfeng multiple times, causing her to become pregnant.

At the end of 1994, Liu Jinfeng gave birth to a baby boy in Tang’s home. Around Spring Festival 1995, Hu returned home to spend the holidays. Hu was furious, stripped Liu Jinfeng naked, tied her hands behind her back, hung her from a tree, and viciously whipped her, even using a knife to stab her thighs and lower body calling her “adulterer”. torturing her until she was half dead. When Liu Jinfeng regained consciousness, her entire body bloody and mutilated, the pain unbearable, and discovered that her son had already been strangled to death by Hu, she instantly lost her head, mustered all of her strength, and hacked Hu to death with a sickle in his sleep before setting fire to the house. Photo is of Liu Jinfeng before facing her penalty.

Tao Jing, a naturally beautiful Yunnan girl. As a result of carrying drugs for her boyfriend, she was sentenced to death in 1991, at only 20-years-old, becoming the youngest female to be executed in over 50 years. This image is a photo of Tao Jing after being arrested. From the image, relevant personnel can be clearly seen inspecting the items carried by Tao Jing.

Tao Jing in court.

Tao Jing in court.

Tao Jing in court.

Tao Jing being escorted to the execution grounds.

Tao Jing eating her very last meal.

Tao Jing after being executed by shooting.

Feng Cuiqiong, executed by shooting at the same time as Tao Jing, also from Yunnan, also 21-years-old, also for drug trafficking.

Feng Cuiqiong, executed by shooting at the same time as Tao Jing, also from Yunnan, also 21-years-old, also for drug trafficking.

Feng Cuiqiong, executed by shooting at the same time as Tao Jing, also from Yunnan, also 21-years-old, also for drug trafficking.

1986, Song Dan was born to an average rural family in Nanyang township of Ruichang city of Jiangxi province. When she was 13-years-old, she was raped multiple times by a Nanyang Middle School teacher surnamed Song, and not long after again seduced multiple times into sexual relations by her uncle-in-law. Although these two offenders were respectively sentenced to 9 years and 8 years of imprisonment, they caused Song Dan great psychological damage. After she grew up, her parents’ reckless and unreasonable method of upbringing with scolding and hitting further deepened her resentment and rebellion.

Song Dan, drifting in society, became addicted to the internet, making a large amount of internet friends, learned to smoke, drink, and staying out all night without returning home. One morning around National Day holiday in 2005, after just turning 18-years-old, Song Dan was taken to the execution grounds. It was because she plotted, kidnapped, and murdered her boyfriend that Song Dan was sentenced to death by the Jiangxi Jiujiang Intermediate People’s Court. What more, this girl claimed she only trying to get money to go see her idol, Liu Xiang.

He Yuqiong, executed for trafficking women.

Lai Xiangjian, executed by shooting in the early 90s, allegedly for killing her own husband with the man she was having an affair with, dying only in her 20s.

Lai Xiangjian, executed by shooting in the early 90s, allegedly for killing her own husband with the man she was having an affair with, dying only in her 20s. Image is of Lai Xiangjian during sentencing.

Lai Xiangjian, executed by shooting in the early 90s, allegedly for killing her own husband with the man she was having an affair with, dying only in her 20s. Image is of Lai Xiangjian during sentencing.

Liu Yiping, Guangzhou Baiyun Airport ticketing agent, executed after being convicted of embezzling 550,000, the illicit gains recovered. While in prison before her execution, she corresponded with her husband many times, and wrote over 10,000 words down in a diary, expressing her remorse for her crime. She was executed by shooting at 23 years of age.

Liu Yiping saved everything she had embezzled, not spending a single cent, therefore not causing any irreversible economic losses, yet was still sentenced to death. Because it was a high point in cracking down on economic crimes, she was made an example of.

22-year-old Dong Ying was a member of Qingdao Shinan District sub-district office and had an extreme greed for money. She colluded with Zhang Hongwei and Gu Tao to trick Yang Qian, the daughter of Qingdao Zhanshan police officer Yang Bucong, into going to Nanjing under the guise of studying abroad. There, they injected her with anesthesia but upon seeing that she did not die, Dong Ying went out to buy more anesthetics to inject her with, but ultimately the alive and well Yang Qian had to be smothered to death, robbed of 61,000 yuan.

Afterward, under the guise of treating them to a meal to discuss going abroad to visit [their daughter], the three murdered Yang Bucong and wife Xu Chunmei. This resulted in a shocking “entire family murdered” case. When the court sentenced Zhong Hongwei, Dong Ying, and Gu Tao to death for murder, robbery, and illegal trafficking of guns and ammunition, female criminal Dong Ying collapsed to the ground.

Liu Yu and Wang X, both living in Pukou, were classmates throughout primary and middle school but lost touch after graduating. In 1998, a chance encounter sparked a romantic relationship between Liu Yu and Wang. In November 1999, Wang went to Jinhua in Zhejiang province for work, and the two began exchanging letters to keep in touch. Missing Wang, Liu Yu even went to Jinhua alone to see Wang, and Wang was extremely moved. However, Liu Yu felt a sliver of distress and a lot of pressure because she was only a middle school graduate while Wang was aggressively and ambitiously preparing to apply for college, and Wang’s mother demanded that she earn a college diploma or not be allowed to enter their family.

Liu Yu searched for work everywhere but failed due to her low educational qualifications, adding to her “sense of crisis”. At the same time, she also felt the relationship between Wang and her was not as strong as before, and gradually developed a pessimistic outlook. As a result, Liu Yu purchased sleeping pills and a fruit knife, preparing to commit suicide, but upon thinking of Wang whom she deeply loved and being reluctant to part with him, she instead asked Wang to meet her at a hotel. After they met that night, Liu Yu secretly placed 40 tablets of sleeping pills into the coffee she had prepared for Wang to drink. After Wang feel asleep, the idea of dying together with Wang suddenly came to Liu Yu. So, she put on her clothes, retrieved the knife from her bag, aimed it at Wang, and stabbed him. After killing her boyfriend, Liu Yu again went out to buy sleeping pills, planning to commit suicide, but was arrested by the police.

Comments from ifeng:

湖北省鄂州市网友 ezzhb:

Since ancient times, beautiful women have been ill-fated, because of their beauty, but even more because of an unequal society. It is mine manager Ding and the head of the working group who truly deserve to die. One weak woman, how is she supposed to protect herself? So sad, such a pity!

河北省保定市网友 枫叶晚情:

Instead of executing major criminals and evildoers, only the weak and small and executed. This is the shamelessness of China’s laws/legal system.

四川省网友 当沧桑不以泪洒:

Don’t be too emotional, China cannot wantonly abolish the death penalty. China’s high courts are like this, those who shouldn’t be executed are, while those who should aren’t. Executed and not executed, the decision is always correct.

上海市浦东新区网友 hhsm333:

Apart from the drug trafficker, as well as the adulterer who murdered her husband, the rest should not have been executed, and even blameless/innocent of committing a crime. The first few should have been overturned/exonerated, and given compensation by the state.

北京市网友 手机用户:

What kind of law/legal system is this? A lot of these are all different degrees of justifiable self-defense. In China, that’s worthy of the death penalty?

上海市网友 手机用户:

These members of the state machine who shoot people in the back of the head, I wonder if they’re able to sleep at night? Taking the lives of these young people, some of whom are innocent and only guilty of minor forgivable crimes, I wonder if they’re able to find peace in their lives?

河南省平顶山市网友 流泪中国:

The editor was too careless with the images, even posting obviously PS‘d photographs. One should investigate clearly the details of a case before making conclusions, not just post some things found on the internet. The description of Ren Xue’s case in the article simply has never been heard of before!

河南省驻马店市网友 woaiwc88:

Fake, the photo of Tao Jing supposedly in 1991 being executed, I noticed that the shoulder straps of the police behind her are those after the change in uniforms. However in 1991, the uniforms had not yet been changed, such a deception to the masses, and the fourth photo is even more PS‘d photograph. Those with a discerning eye can tell with just one look.

辽宁省鞍山市网友 中国大龙:

An individual’s sadness, a society’s sadness.

北京市网友 手机用户:

It doesn’t matter how big the crime, those with money will not suffer the consequences. Those without money, however, will be shot even for the smallest crime. This is what China is like.

四川省成都市网友 手机用户:

Women commit crimes are always because of a man who deserves to die! None of these women deserved to die!

天津市网友 手机用户:

Shot for embezzling 550,000? Then what about those who are now embezzling hundreds of millions, how come we don’t see anything happening to them?

东省东莞市网友 手机用户:

How come Guo Meimei isn’t amongst them? Didn’t she embezzle as well?

北京市网友 BFENG12003:

How many souls who died unjustly are watching China? In China, when can we truly give the weak the chance to avoid being wronged?

What do you think?