Lü Debin (

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: 吕德彬; May 1953 – 18 October 2005) was a Chinese politician and academic, who served as vice governor of

Henan Province Henan; alternatively Honan is a province in Central China. Henan is home to many heritage sites, including Yinxu, the ruins of the final capital of the Shang dynasty () and the Shaolin Temple. Four of the historical capitals of China, Luo ...

. In 2005, he was executed for murdering his wife. State-controlled media in China reported his wife had threatened to expose him for corruption if he divorced her. At the time, it was reported that Lü was the highest-ranking official charged with homicide since the establishment of the People's Republic of China. Born to a poor family in Yinu Village, Dama Township, Yanling County,

, Lü became a village cadre as a teenager and was admitted to the Henan Agricultural College (now

Henan Agricultural University Henan Agricultural University () is a public university in Zhengzhou, China. It was established in 1912 as Henan Public Agricultural Major School. The school area occupies approximately 144,000 square meters. The university established inter ...

) as a

Worker-Peasant-Soldier student Worker-Peasant-Soldier students () were Chinese students who entered colleges between 1970 and 1976, during the later part of the Cultural Revolution (1966–1976). They were accepted not for their academic qualifications, but rather for their wo ...

. He later attended

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, where he received master's and doctoral degrees. Debin was executed by lethal injection on October 18, 2005.

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