Zhang Fan and Zhang Lidong were executed Monday after their death sentences were approved by the Supreme People’s Court, the Xinhua news agency.
The report stated that, before their deaths, Zhang and Zhang were allowed to meet with their families for a final time
They were among five members of the Church of Almighty God, or “Quannengshen,” tried on murder charges in August 2014 over the killing of a woman in Zhaoyuan, Shandong Province.
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“They always find some excuse in advance and fabricate things and slander them,” said the statement.
CNN’s Tim Hume and Chieu Luu contributed to this report
