China executes killer of pregnant 'ghost bride'

BEIJING: A man who murdered a pregnant woman in China to sell her corpse as a " ghost bride" has been executed, state media reported on Thursday.

Wang Hairong was put to death earlier this week, the Legal Daily said citing a court in Yan'an in the northern province of Shaanxi.

Wang and two accomplices persuaded a woman, identified only by her surname Luo, to accept a lift in their car in May 2011 and strangled her, the report said. She was pregnant at the time.

They drove to a nearby town and sold Luo's body for 22,000 yuan ($3,600) to a family as a bride for their dead son in a "ghost marriage", it said.

Wang took 14,000 yuan, with the rest of the money divided between the other two, it added.

Marriage is an important part of Chinese society. While the practice is increasingly rare, "ghost" weddings are still carried out by some families in parts of Shaanxi and neighbouring Shanxi.

If a young adult son dies before having had a chance to marry, he will be buried next to a woman after a wedding ceremony of sorts, to prevent the man's spirit being lonely in the afterlife and bringing misfortune on his family.

In March Chinese media reported that four people had been jailed for digging up corpses to sell as ghost brides.

 

It's interesting to read how old world traditions clash with the modern world's morals.

 

Ummmm....Seriously?
They kill a pregnant woman to sell her dead body, so that the soul of the bachelor doesn't have to be alone.....

It's bad enough that they burned the widows of men in India, but this woman had nothing to do with the guy that died.

You call it "morals"? Strange wording.

 

This story is truly frightening. This is akin to murdering for body parts.
And she was pregnant. Just horrendous.

*Agree with you 100%, Unique. Since when is murdering females to sell her body a Chinese 'Tradition'? They had in the rare morbid instances, used already deceased and buried corpses, not slayed innocent women living their lives.

 

i guess I misread it, nvm then.