Mao Ran, a 25-year-old export/import employee with a heroin trafficking empire dating back to her university days, was executed in Xiamen on this date in 2011.
Not to be confused with manga assassin Ran Mao
According to Chinese reports, Mao Ran “began to get involved in drug trafficking after knowing her foreign boyfriend, OBI, who was also a drug lord and later ordered her to organize others to conduct illegal drug trafficking.”
Two women she recruited as couriers were seized by customs in separate 2008 and 2009 busts that netted over 3 kg of product between them.
Alarmed by the arrests, Mao ran (sorry) but was captured by police soon after.
On this day..
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- 1725: William Dickson, collared
- 1979: Major Bijan Yahyahi, prison torturer
- 1546: Alice Glaston, age 11
- 1805: Mary Morgan, anomalously
- 1923: Paul Hadley
- 1942: Four Jews from Bedzin and Sosnowiec
- 1961: Marie Fikacková, Beast of Sušice
- 1942: Anton Schmid
- 1816: John Allen and John Penny, poachers
- 1961: John A. Bennett, the last American military execution (so far)
- 1794: Lucile Duplessis and Marie Hebert, friends at the end