In China, a notorious gang leader has been executed in Chongqing Municipality after being convicted of organizing a crime ring. Chen Ming, 36, from Rongchang County, was the first to receive death penalty in the city's crackdown on organized crime. The Supreme People's Court yesterday upheld the death penalty awarded to him by the Intermediate People's Court in July 2008. Penalties for the other 13 members of Chen's ring ranged from three years in jail to a suspended death sentence.