2011: Chen Weijun, rapist karaoke man
November 22nd, 2014 Headsman
On this date in 2011, China executed a karaoke bar proprietor in Zhejiang province for a rape spree.
Not to be confused with his documentary filmmaker countryman, Chen Weijun “targeted young innocent middle-school girls after seducing them with money and violently threatening them,” said the official report. “He raped 14 Lishui middle-school girls, including nine children, in cars, karaoke bars, hotels and underground parking lots.” (The legal definition of a “child” here is 14 years old, which is why some students were and some were not.)
The crimes occurred from 2007 to 2009, but the context of the execution itself was a whole spate of recent unsettling special-victims-unit stories … like the peasant who raped over 100 women, and the firefighter who kept six sex slaves in his basement dungeon.
On this day..
- 1883: Mampuru, Sekukuni rival - 2019
- 1635: The village of Mattau - 2018
- 1872: Thomas Camp, the first hanged in Gibson County - 2017
- 1946: Twice double executions around the U.S. - 2016
- 1613: Matthäus Enzlin, fallen favorite - 2015
- 1793: Jean-Jacques Ampère, father of a savant, for Joseph Chalier - 2013
- 1955: Six Beria men - 2012
- 1318: Mikhail of Tver - 2011
- Feast Day of St. Cecilia, patron of music - 2010
- 1895: Florence English and Amanda Cody - 2009
- 1538: John Lambert, "none but Christ" - 2008
- 1799: Judith van Dorth - 2007
Entry Filed under: 21st Century,Businessmen,Capital Punishment,China,Common Criminals,Crime,Death Penalty,Execution,Lethal Injection,Rape,Ripped from the Headlines,Sex
Tags: 2010s, 2011, chen weijun, karaoke, lishui, november 22
