1.   A court recently ordered Li Jijin put to death and he was executed by gunshot immediately, the newspaper said.

2.   Eight people also were executed by gunshot Friday for selling, transporting or manufacturing drugs in southern Hunan province, Xinhua said.

3.   Li and Jiang were executed by gunshot Saturday, along with Yin Guangcai, who helped produce and sell the liquor, Xinhua said.

4.   Ma Hongqing was executed by gunshot immediately after a public sentencing rally in Hengshan county in Shaanxi, where the blast occurred, Xinhua said.

5.   Nine people convicted of murder have been executed by gunshot in the central Chinese city of Wuhan after a public sentencing rally, a newspaper reported Monday.

6.   The former soldier said he saw three people executed by gunshot last year for killing vagrant children and selling their flesh at a market.

7.   The hostages were tortured by their Muslim rebel captors, and at least four were killed -- executed by gunshots to the back of the head.

8.   The newspaper did not name the other five people executed by gunshot.

9.   Two men convicted of bombing and robbing a department store were executed by gunshot Friday in southwest China, a Chinese news agency said.