BEIJING (AFP) - A man who murdered a pregnant woman in China to sell her corpse as a "ghost bride" has been executed, state media reported on Thursday.
Wang Hairong was put to death earlier this week, the Legal Daily said citing a court in Yan'an in the northern province of Shaanxi.
Wang and two accomplices persuaded a woman, identified only by her surname Luo, to accept a lift in their car in May 2011 and strangled her, the report said. She was pregnant at the time.
They drove to a nearby town and sold Ms Luo's body for 22,000 yuan (S$4,500) to a family as a bride for their dead son in a "ghost marriage", it said.
Wang Hairong was put to death earlier this week, the Legal Daily said citing a court in Yan'an in the northern province of Shaanxi.
Wang and two accomplices persuaded a woman, identified only by her surname Luo, to accept a lift in their car in May 2011 and strangled her, the report said. She was pregnant at the time.
They drove to a nearby town and sold Ms Luo's body for 22,000 yuan (S$4,500) to a family as a bride for their dead son in a "ghost marriage", it said.