In a sad turn of events, the family of a Chinese teenager executed after being convicted of murder and rape 18 years ago, howled in anguish as he was declared innocent by a court today...
According to AP,Hugjiltu was just 18 when he was found guilty of raping and murdering a woman in Hohhot, in 1996 and was put to death just 61 days after the woman was murdered.
In Hugjiltu's case, authorities interrogated the teenager for 48 hours, after which he confessed to having raped and choked the woman in the toilet of a textile factory
After he was executed in June 1996, Hugjiltu's family tried for nearly two decades to prove his innocence.But doubt was cast on the verdict when another man confessed to the crime in 2005, leading to the case being reopened last month...