Execution goes ahead on cold killer of pupils
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April 29, 2010, Thursday
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A MAN who murdered eight children and severely injured five others outside their primary school last month was executed yesterday in east China's Fujian Province.
Zheng Minsheng, 42, was shot in Nanping City after the sentence was approved by the Supreme People's Court.
The SPC reviewed Zheng's case and ratified the sentence handed down by the local court, said a statement released by the Intermediate People's Court of Nanping.
Zheng, a former community doctor, carried out his heinous crime on March 23 at the gates of the Nanping Experimental Elementary School and had since shown no remorse.
An investigation found Zheng was acting out of frustration because of failures in his romantic and professional life, the statement said.
Zheng was convicted of multiple murder on April 8 in the Intermediate People's Court of Nanping.
He appealed against the sentence and asked for leniency but this was rejected by the Fujian Provincial Higher People's Court on April 20.
The five injured students suffered from shock due to excess blood loss, said Chen Xiaojie, deputy head of the No. 1 Hospital of Nanping.
They were out of danger but still receiving free treatment at the hospital, Chen said.
Each of the eight bereaved families had received 290,000 yuan (US$42,500) in compensation.
As a "loser" without a job or a wife and already middle aged, Yang sought revenge on society, said Yu Jianrong, director of the Research Center for Social Issues at the Institute of Rural Development of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences.
Zheng targeted children who were vulnerable instead of those who "hurt" him and authorities, Yu said. "It reveals the serious fact that any innocent person can become a victim of violence," Yu said.
However, experts said such extreme violence was almost impossible to predict.
Killers without a criminal record often did not arouse the attention of police, said Gong Zhigang, a professor at the Chinese People's Public Security University.
Zheng Minsheng, 42, was shot in Nanping City after the sentence was approved by the Supreme People's Court.
The SPC reviewed Zheng's case and ratified the sentence handed down by the local court, said a statement released by the Intermediate People's Court of Nanping.
Zheng, a former community doctor, carried out his heinous crime on March 23 at the gates of the Nanping Experimental Elementary School and had since shown no remorse.
An investigation found Zheng was acting out of frustration because of failures in his romantic and professional life, the statement said.
Zheng was convicted of multiple murder on April 8 in the Intermediate People's Court of Nanping.
He appealed against the sentence and asked for leniency but this was rejected by the Fujian Provincial Higher People's Court on April 20.
The five injured students suffered from shock due to excess blood loss, said Chen Xiaojie, deputy head of the No. 1 Hospital of Nanping.
They were out of danger but still receiving free treatment at the hospital, Chen said.
Each of the eight bereaved families had received 290,000 yuan (US$42,500) in compensation.
As a "loser" without a job or a wife and already middle aged, Yang sought revenge on society, said Yu Jianrong, director of the Research Center for Social Issues at the Institute of Rural Development of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences.
Zheng targeted children who were vulnerable instead of those who "hurt" him and authorities, Yu said. "It reveals the serious fact that any innocent person can become a victim of violence," Yu said.
However, experts said such extreme violence was almost impossible to predict.
Killers without a criminal record often did not arouse the attention of police, said Gong Zhigang, a professor at the Chinese People's Public Security University.
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