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Court rejects rapist killer’s murder claim
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A COURT has rejected a claim by a convicted rapist and murderer that he also killed a woman for whose death another man was executed 18 years ago.
The higher people’s court of north China’s Hebei Province yesterday upheld an earlier death sentence received by Wang Shujin for raping three women and murdering two of them between 1994 and 1995.
But Hebei Provincial Higher People’s Court dismissed Wang’s claim that also he raped and killed another woman in 1994 in Shijiazhuang, capital of Hebei, a crime for which 21-year-old Nie Shubin was executed in 1995.
Wang was sentenced to death in March 2007, but he appealed for mercy, arguing that his confession over the Shijiazhuang case should have earned him leniency.
Wang admitted the charges during court hearings, but also insisted that Nie was innocent, and that he raped and murdered the woman in a cornfield in the outskirts of Shijiazhuang in 1994.
After Wang was apprehended by police in 2005 over the rape and murder charges, he confessed to having raped and murdered the woman in Shijiazhuang.
His claims triggered extensive public attention following several wrongful conviction cases in recent years.
Some believed that Nie could be another victim of a wrong conviction.
Nie’s mother, 68-year-old Zhang Huanzhi, was among 200 people, including journalists and lawyers, attending the public sentencing of Wang yesterday.
She demanded that her son’s case be reopened, and called for all files to be disclosed.
“There was not enough evidence to prove he committed the crime,” said Zhang.
The court rejected Wang’s appeal for mercy, saying that his account of the 1994 Shijiazhuang case did not tally with evidence presented by the procuratorate.
The sentencing of Wang will be submitted to the Supreme People’s Court for approval.
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