For his crimes, the 62-year-old was executed on Tuesday, making him one of the highest-ranking Chinese officials ever to be put to death.
Mr. Zheng was executed on Wednesday after what one legal expert, He Weifang, a former Peking University law professor and civil rights advocate, said was an unusually speedy trial.
Oliver Cruz, a mentally retarded 33- year-old with an I.Q. of 64, was one of two men executed on Wednesday in Huntsville, Tex.
In the city of Kamyaran, in Kurdistan Province, the hometown of one of the activists executed on Sunday, the authorities imposed heavy security to prevent possible protests over the executions, according to the Human Rights Activists News Agency.
Brough, who won Slipper's former seat of Fisher in the 2013 election, confirmed his home was one of the properties covered in search warrants executed on Tuesday.
A Texas man who said he wanted to kill Arabs to avenge the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks was executed on Wednesday evening, after a last-minute appeal by one of his victims to save his life was rejected.
Mr. Buck, 48, had been scheduled to be executed on Thursday evening, but the Supreme Court intervened, granting a temporary stay of execution pending a decision about whether it will review an appeal of his case.
But it's inevitable that this execution -- or the next two: Missouri inmate John Winfield faces execution six hours after Wellons, and Florida inmate John Ruthell Henry is scheduled to be executed on Wednesday -- will spark yet another debate about the death penalty.
He is scheduled to be executed on Wednesday.
The remaining eight were to be executed on Wednesday.
He had been scheduled to be executed on Tuesday.
