TAIPEI, Taiwan: A court in China's southwestern Sichuan province put to death on Saturday a man convicted of homicide for setting his former wife on fire, in a case that had drawn national outrage and horror in an extreme case of domestic violence.

The Ngawa Tibetan and Qiang Autonomous Prefecture Intermediate People's Court said in a short online statement on Saturday morning that it had executed the man, Tang Lu.

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