Zhang Fan and Zhang Lidong, cult members who committed the crime of intentional homicide in May in Zhaoyuan City, east China's Shandong Province, were sentenced to death Saturday by a court, with another accomplice, Lü Yingchun, given a life sentence.

Zhang Hang and Zhang Qiaolian, another two cult members, were sentenced to ten and seven years of jail terms respectively by Shandong's Yantai Intermediate People's Court.