The Chinese man who made multiple media appearances tearfully begging for information after he murdered his wife and chopped up her corpse in 2020, was executed in Hangzhou, Zhejiang Province, on Tuesday.
The man named Xu Guoli was given a death penalty for murder by Hangzhou Intermediate People’s Court on July 26, 2021. The Supreme People’s Court reviewed and affirmed the original sentence after Xu lodged an appeal.
The Hangzhou Intermediate People’s Court made an arrangement for Xu to meet with his relatives before the execution, which fully guaranteed the legal rights of the executed criminal.
According to the court trial, Xu bore a grudge against his wife named Lai Huili, 51, because of conflicts related to emotional and financial reasons. He bought sleeping pills and cutting tools and planned the murder.
On the evening of July 4, 2020, Xu put sleeping pills into Lai’s milk and sealed Lai’s mouth with sticky tape and put the pillow over her face to suffocate her during her lethargy. Later, Xu dismembered her body in the toilet using a cutting tool he had purchased.
After the murder, Xu fabricated false information and claimed that Lai went missing in an attempt to evade police’s detection.
On July 22, 2022, the local police found part of Lai’s human tissue in their community’s septic tank which they had drained for searching, and arrested Xu the next day.
