Li Hao, 35-yr-old Chinese man has been executed for keeping six women in a dungeon as sex slaves and killing two of them, state media reported.
The official Xinhua news agency said that Li Hao had been convicted of murder, rape, illegal detention, organized prostitution and making pornography for profit in 2012.
The 35-year-old, from Henan province, was sentenced to death for keeping the women in his grim tiny cellar and for his role in the murder of two of them.
The local government clerk had built a dungeon in his basement where he forced the women to work as prostitutes.
Police were quoted as saying that Li coerced them to kill two others who had been forced to work as sex slaves alongside them.
The death penalty had been approved by the Supreme People's Court, Xinhua said, after a higher court upheld the sentence handed down by the Luoyang Intermediate People's Court in November 2012.
Li was executed 'according to law' after meeting relatives in a detention house in Luoyang, Henan province, a statement issued by the Supreme People's Court said, according to Xinhua.
Three of the women he held were given leniency for their role in the two murders. One received three years and the two others were put on probation.
Eventually, one of the women managed to escape and she went to the police.
An investigation revealed that Li created the basement in 2009 and held the women for between two to 21 months.
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This diagram shows the location of the grim 20metre dungeon where Li Hao kept six women as sex slaves underneath a residential complex
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