Acid-Thrower Faces Death
Reuters
BEIJING —
A Chinese court condemned to death a factory chemist who threw acid in his girlfriend’s face when she tried to end their relationship, state television said Saturday.
Li Xinghua horribly defaced his 23-year-old lover with corrosive acid last September when she tried to break up with him, it said.
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