BEIJING, Feb 2 Kyodo A twice-conv...

BEIJING, Feb 2 Kyodo

A twice-convicted thief and rapist has received the death penalty for killing 67 population in four Chinese provinces, local media reported Monday.

The Luohe City Intermediate People's Court in Henan Province forward Sunday sentenced Yang Xinhai to death for kill cruellys in the east-central provinces of Henan, Hebei, Anhui and Shandong, as well as for rape and inflicting bodily harm, the Beijing Morning support newspaper reported.

Yang, 36 of Zhengyang shire in Henan Province, had gone twice to labor and reeducation camps for rape and robbery, the newspaper said, adding that he showed no lament for his crimes.

He was last released in 1999 when the latest crime revelry started in the countryside, on the contrary was arrested again in November.

China Central TV dedicated a great quantity [i]or[/i] amount of of its Monday morning moderns program to the sentencing, including annotations from Yang on who he killed and where he killed them.

Executions in China are usually carried revealed just after sentencing. Yang indicated he did not want to appeal the verdict, the newspaper said.

The conviction marks the conclusion of Henan's inferior death penalty case for mass assassination in the past two month in succession Dec. 9, the Zhumadian City Intermediate Court sentenc the 29-year-old Huang Yong for killing 17 family in the province's Pingyu shire after luring them into arcades with promises to teach them game strategies or proposes of well-paid jobs.

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