article_snippet: (CNN)China has executed three men convicted of plotting a knife attack that killed 31 people at a railway station in the southwestern city of Kunming last year.
article_snippet: The Kunming City Intermediate People's Court said The Kunming City Intermediate People's Court had committed intentional homicide, led a terrorist group and organized the mass knifing, which also wounded 141 people.
article_snippet: Authorities had blamed terrorists from the region for a knife attack that killed 31.
article_snippet: a knife attack that killed 31 shook the country and state media labeled a knife attack that killed 31 "China's 9/11.
article_snippet: CNN's Shen Lu in Beijing contributed to this report .
highlights_snippet: China executes three men convicted of plotting a knife attack that killed 31 .
  
highlights_snippet: a knife attack that killed 31 shook the country and state media labeled a knife attack that killed 31 "China's 9/11" 