China has executed two members of a religious sect who were found guilty of beating a woman to death inside a McDonald's restaurant in May last year.

A Chinese court, the Yantai Intermediate People's Court in Shandong province, announced the executions of Zhang Lidong and his daughter, Zhang Fan which was posted on its social media account.

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The court said the two were found guilty of committing murder and used their banned religious sect in carrying out the crime.There was no report posted as to when the two criminals were executed.

Reports said the father and daughter were members of the Church of Almighty God, a Christian sect which has been branded by China as an 'evil cult' and was banned in 1995.

The Christ of Almighty God reportedly was founded in 1989 in the northern part of China. The sect teaches followers that Jesus Christ returned to earth as a Chinese woman out to save the world from the apocalypse.

The Zhangs were convicted and sentenced to death in October together with three other defendants who were meted seven, 10 years, and life imprisonment.

Reports said that the Zhangs and their fellow  believers entered a McDonald's restaurant in the Zhaoyuan city in May 28 hoping to recruit more followers  for their church.

Inside the restaurant, they chanced upon the victim, Wu Shuoyan, who was waiting for her husband and her son.

The group was persistently trying to recruit Wu and asked for her phone number. When Wu refused twice to give her number, the Christian group called her an 'evil spirit' and started to beat her up with mops, chairs while stomping on her and kicking her until she was dead.

This turn of events was narrated by one of several bystanders who was able to record the whole attack in his mobile phone.

The crime was posted online and went viral, sparking outrage from netizens and the Chinese people who were angry and worried about witnesses who just watch and  refuse to intervene in such violent incidents.

The executions had been carried out after China's Supreme People's Court upheld the death sentences.

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