Lü Debin

Lü Debin was a Chinese politician and academic, who served as vice governor of Henan Province. In 2005, he was executed for murdering his wife. State-controlled media in China reported his wife had threatened to expose him for corruption if he divorced her. At the time, it was reported that Lü was the highest-ranking official charged with homicide since the establishment of the People's Republic of China.
Born to a poor family in Yinu Village, Dama Township, Yanling County, Henan Province, Lü became a village cadre as a teenager and was admitted to the Henan Agricultural College as a Worker-Peasant-Soldier student. He later attended Kansas State University, where he received master's and doctoral degrees.
Debin was executed by lethal injection on October 18, 2005.