The death penalty meted out to a corrupt official is no longer a rarity on the Chinese mainland. Last Wednesday, Li Yushu, Deputy Mayor of Leshan in Sichuan, Southwest China, received capital punishment for accepting bribes worth US$1 million, the equivalent of Rp10 billion. Two years before, Hu Changqing, Deputy Governor of Jiangxi Province, drew a similar sentence for a cash bribe amounting to the equivalent of Rp6.6 billion plus Rp1.5 billion's