BEIJING -- China executed a dairy farmer and a milk salesman yesterday for their roles in the sale of contaminated baby formula -- severe punishments that Beijing hopes will assuage public anger, reassure importers, and put to rest one of the country's worst food-safety crises.
The men were the only people put to death in a scheme to increase profits by lacing milk powder with the industrial chemical melamine. Nineteen other people were convicted and received lesser sentences.
At least six children died after drinking the formula, and more than 300,000 were sickened.
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