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Murderer Faces Trial in China After Mistaken Execution of Innocent Teenager

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A man, who killed a woman 18 years ago, was found guilty of the crime in 2005 and is now facing a court trial. In 1996, Chinese authorities executed an innocent 18-year old, who confessed his guilt during a harsh interrogation.

MOSCOW, January 5 (Sputnik) — The trial of a man who murdered a woman 18 years ago and recently confessed his guilt will take place in China on Monday, nearly 2 decades after an innocent teenager was wrongfully executed, AFP reports.

The incident took place in 1996, after a Chinese woman was sexually assaulted and murdered in the bathroom of a Hohhot textile factory. The police arrested an 18-year-old young man named Hugjiltu, who was then interrogated for 2 days after the incident and eventually confessed his guilt. His execution took place 61 days after the crime, despite the fact that his parents constantly struggled to establish his innocence.

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Hugjiltu’s friend, Yan, who was also taken to interrogation in April 1996 and was questioned in a neighboring room, said that he heard groaning and loud sounds made by tables and chairs moving behind the wall. He assumed that his friend must have been beaten, China Daily reported.

Hugjiltu was acquitted in December 2014, when a man named Zhao Zhihong confessed to this crime and other murders. Zhihong was arrested by Chinese police in 2005 under suspicion of conducting a series of killings and sexual assaults.

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Zhao Zhihong is expected to be sentenced this week. The case has revealed shortcomings of China’s law-enforcement system and it will be only a tiny consolation for the family of Hugjiltu.

There were 17 official cases of capital punishment in China for 2014. However, this is only a small part of real number of executions, as they are predominantly kept secret, according to deathpenalyworldwide.org. Various human organizations estimate that the actual number of executions in China reaches several thousand a year, with the country topping the charts.

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