Yu Huaying, the criminal convicted of abducting and trafficking 17 children, was executed on Friday, according to a court statement.

The execution was conducted by the Guiyang Intermediate People's Court in southwest China's Guizhou Province after the death sentence was approved by the Supreme People's Court. The procedure was supervised by prosecutors from the local procuratorate.

Yu was found to have abducted children from Guizhou, Chongqing and Yunnan along with her accomplices, and sold them for profit between 1993 and 2003.

Yu was sentenced to death for the crime of child trafficking in a first-instance criminal judgement delivered on Oct. 25, 2024. After Yu appealed, the Guizhou Provincial Higher People's Court rejected her appeal and reaffirmed the death sentence following the second-instance trial.

She was also deprived of her political rights for life, with all her personal property confiscated.