Two members of a banned cult have been executed in China's eastern province of Shandong for beating a woman to death at a McDonald's outlet in May.
Zhang Fan and Zhang Lidong, who were members of the Almighty God cult, known in Chinese as "Quannengshen", were executed by the Intermediate People's Court of Yantai City. In November 2014, the Shandong Higher People's Court rejected the cult members' appeals and upheld their death sentences as well as the life imprisonment of another accomplice, Lyu Yingchun, for intentional homicide and undermining law enforcement using heresy.
The victim, Wu Shuoyan, was beaten to death on May the 28th at a McDonald's outlet in Zhaoyuan, Shandong, after she refused to give her cellphone number to the cult members, who were allegedly trying to recruit new members.
