Man sentenced to death for killing wife chinadaily.com.cn | Updated: 2021-07-26 15:16 Share CLOSE Xu Guoli stands trial on murder charge at the Hangzhou Intermediate People's Court in Zhejiang province, on May 14, 2021. [Photo/CCTV News] A man who admitted killing his 53-year-old wife, Lai Huili, was sentenced to death by the Hangzhou Intermediate People's Court in Zhejiang province on Monday. Xu Guoli, 55, Lai's husband, previously confessed in court that he killed his sleeping wife on the morning of July 5 in 2020 because of family conflicts and then dismembered her body and discarded the remains around the residential community where the couple lived.