BEIJING (Reuters) - A 21-year-old Chinese college student has been executed for stabbing to death a woman after the car he was driving struck and injured her, a case that has transfixed and outraged the nation.
Yao Jiaxin, a student at Xi'an Conservatory of Music, was executed on Tuesday in Xi'an, capital of the central province of Shaanxi, state media reported. He was convicted of killing the woman to escape responsibility for the auto accident.
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