15 April 2009 :
a Malawian man received the death penalty with a two-year reprieve for trafficking more than 1,140 grams of heroin into China. The Intermediate People's Court of Guilin, a city in south China's Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, handed down the sentence. Mpasu Gerrad, 29, was seized at the Guilin airport July 14, 2008, with 88 capsules of compact powder in his stomach.A court spokesman said the court showed leniency because he confessed and had been stopped before the drugs were sold.