zhang xuping
In the case of party secretary Li, the young man who confessed to the stabbing — 19-year-old Zhang Xuping — has been sentenced to death for the September 2008 killing, his mother and lawyer said Wednesday. The sentence was quietly 7, 2007, released by Zhang Xuping's family, 19-year-old Zhang Xuping pose for photos outside the Forbidden City in Beijing, China. Zhang became something of a local hero for killing Li Shiming, the hated party secretary of Xiashuixi Zhang Xuping was paid 1000 yuan ($146) by another villager, 35-year-old farmer Zhang Huping, to commit the murder after Li allegedly harassed the farmer for years, local newspaper reports said. The elder Zhang was reportedly routinely