Two members of a radical religious cult who beat a woman to death in a McDonald's restaurant after she refused to join them will be executed under a court order.
Zhang Fan, 29, and her father Zhang Lidon, 55, were given the death sentence on Saturday, following trial at the
Yantai Intermediate People's Court in Shandong, eastern China, state media have reported.
Both are members of the banned "All-powerful Spirit" cult in China, also known as the Church of Almighty God, which believes Jesus has been resurrected as a Chinese woman who is also the founder's wife.
Together with three fellow cult members they were found guilty of murdering 37-year-old Wu Shuoyan who they claimed was an "evil spirit" after she allegedly refused to give them her telephone number.
They attacked her with mops and chairs before stamping on her during the attack at a fast food outlet in Zhaoyuan, Shandong province, on May 28.
