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Gang of 66 Criminals Get Heavy Sentences

A gang of 66 repeat offenders received heavy sentences including the death penalty on Friday in Zhengzhou, Henan Province, for a series of crimes they committed over the past decade.

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A gang of 66 repeat offenders received heavy sentences including the death penalty on Friday in Zhengzhou, Henan Province, for a series of crimes they committed over the past decade.

The Zhengzhou Intermediate People's Court delivered the death penalty to 15 principal gang members. Another two received death sentences with a two-year reprieve and a further two got life imprisonment.

The remaining 47 were given terms of imprisonment of either 20 years, 10 years or 5 years.

The offenders were found guilty of serious crimes jointly committed from 1992 to 2001 in Zhengzhou, including four murders, 11 rapes, attacking and robbing local residents, assaulting police officers and stealing from public power-supply facilities.

Aged from 20 to 62, the gang members came from rural parts of seven provincial-level regions across China like Anhui, Shandong, Sichuan and Henan. Only five among them have graduated from senior middle schools, while 70 percent went only to primary school or are illiterate, according to investigations.

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