China on Friday executed a man convicted of raping and killing a female passenger last year while he was working as a driver for ride-hailing service Didi Chuxing, China’s omnipresent answer to Uber. The company has been slammed by critics and China’s transport ministry over safety lapses after the incident in the eastern city of Wenzhou in August 2018, barely three months after a similar death. Zhong Yuan, 28, had racked up gambling debts and was planning to rob a passenger before the fatal attack on the 20-year-old woman, state-run news agency Xinhua reported.
