The Supreme People's Court sentenced Liu Yong, head of a crime ring in Shenyang, capital of Liaoning Province, to death penalty here Monday morning. 

Liu was sentenced to death and given a 15-million-yuan fine by the Tieling Intermediate People's Court in April 2002. The Liaoning Higher People's Court ruled a death penalty with a two-year reprieve in August this year, according to earlier reports.

(Xinhua News Agency December 22, 2003)