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Chinese snack shop owner executed for poisoning

2008-04-25

A Chinese snack shop owner who confessed to poisoning food at a rival's store was executed Monday. At least 38 people died and hundreds were made ill from the poisoned breakfast snacks.

    * FROM SEP 15, 2002: Scores of Chinese die in mass poisoning

    * FROM SEP 30, 2002: Chinese snack shop owner sentenced to death for mass poisoning
Chen Zhengping's execution was announced by China's official government news agency.

The Jiangsu High People's Court had denied his automatic appeal. China's Supreme Court approved the death sentence.

The incident occurred in Nanjing on Sept. 15. Chinese government officials said most of the victims were schoolchildren.

Tests on the poisoned food showed the presence of a banned rat poison

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