Father-daughter cult killers executed for McDonald’s murder

Source: Shanghai Daily | February 2, 2015, Monday |

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TWO members of the Church of the Almighty God cult were executed today in Yantai city, eastern China's Shandong Province, for murder and breaching law enforcement through cult activities.

Zhang Lidong and Zhang Fan, father and daughter, beat a woman to death on May 28 last year at a McDonald’s outlet in Zhaoyuan, after she refused to give her cell phone number to them, all members of the cult, also known in Chinese as Quannengshen.

Today's execution came after China's Supreme People's Court upheld their death sentence.

In last October, the duo were sentenced to death by the Yantai Intermediate People’s Court in Shandong, with accomplice Lu Yingchun given a life sentence. The other two cult members, Zhang Hang and Zhang Qiaolian, were sentenced to prison terms of 10 and 7 years respectively.

All the four Zhangs are relatives.

Zhang Fan, Zhang Lidong and Lu Yingchun were also charged with breaching law enforcement through cult activities.

Established in the 1990s, Quannengshen claims that Jesus was resurrected as Yang Xiangbin, the wife of the sect’s founder Zhao Weishan, also known as Xu Wenshan. The couple fled to the United States in 2000.

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Father-daughter cult killers executed for McDonald’s murder

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