Star: SA woman on death row for drug smuggling: "Janice Linden, 35, was sentenced in July last year after she was convicted of drug smuggling in China.
A higher court in China yesterday upheld Linden's death sentence following an appeal hearing in November.
Linden was arrested after customs found about three kilograms of methamphetamines in her luggage following her arrival at Baiyun International Airport in the southern city of Guangzhou in November 2008.
A court statement reportedly said Linden had 'attempted to evade supervision of Chinese customs to smuggle a large amount of drugs into the country'.
The court, therefore, had decided it 'should allow no leniency', the statement said.
The upholding of Linden's sentence comes after Chinese authorities on Tuesday executed Mitsunobu Akano, the first Japanese citizen to be put to death since the two nations normalised diplomatic ties in 1972.
That execution of the drug trafficker was followed by the execution of three more Japanese drug traffickers yesterday.
The three executions were carried out in the north-eastern cities of Dalian and Shenyang after approval by the Supreme People's Court, a report said.
The agency named the three convicted drug smugglers as Teruo Takeda, 67; Hironori Ukai, 48; and Katsuo Mori, 67, but the method of execution was not released"
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