Zhao Fuli, 45, who killed a couple in Shunyi district in 2010, was executed Thursday on the order of Beijing Second Intermediate People's Court, the Legal Mirror reported.

Zhao killed a couple, with whom he had a property dispute, on March 4, 2010. He attacked them with an axe and hammered 15-centimeter-long nails into their heads, later dumping their bodies in a wood.