Student executed for hit-and-run stabbing

Beijing - A high-profile murder came to a close on Tuesday morning when Yao Jiaxin, a university student who stabbed a young mother to death to cover up a hit-and-run, was executed in Xi'an, the capital of Northwest China's Shaanxi province, on Tuesday.

On Oct 20 last year, Yao, a 21-year-old student at the Xi'an Conservatory of Music, was driving a Chevrolet Cruze when he ran into Zhang Miao, a 26-year-old waitress riding a bicycle home. Fearing that Zhang might remember his license plate number and report him to the police, Yao stabbed her eight times with a knife.

The Xi'an Intermediate People's Court handed him a death sentence for intentional killing on April 22, and his appeal of the sentence was rejected by the Shaanxi Provincial Higher People's Court on May 20.