China Confirms Briton’s Execution, Despite Uk Plea (ap)

An undated photograph shows Akmal Shaikh in Warsaw, Poland. The British man, reported to have mental health problems, is set to be executed in China on Tuesday for drug smuggling, after last-minute pleas for mercy from his family and the government in London.(AFP/HO/Reprieve/Luis Belmonte Diaz/File)AP – China brushed aside international appeals Tuesday and executed a British man convicted of drug smuggling and whose relatives say was mentally unstable and unwittingly lured into the crime.

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