Execution upheld for kids' attacker
By Wang Xiang |
May 27, 2010, Thursday
|
Print Edition
Print Edition
A COURT in Jiangsu Province yesterday threw out the death-penalty appeal of a man who attacked and injured 32 kindergarten pupils and teachers.
Taizhou Intermediate People's Court revoked Xu Yuyuan's appeal. Xu appealed his death sentence on May 15, saying capital punishment was too severe considering no one was killed in his stabbing spree in a kindergarten in Jiangsu's Taixing City on April 29.
Xu, 47, was unemployed and confessed in the first trial that he was lashing out in anger against society by wielding a knife at preschool children.
Twenty-nine children were hurt in the attack, along with three teachers.
Xu's attack was one of five major assaults against schoolchildren across the country in the past few months that left 17 dead and more than 50 injured.
In the deadliest incident, on May 12, a villager in Shaanxi Province, Hu Huanmin, barged into a kindergarten and killed seven children and two adults with a kitchen knife.
The first attack happened on March 23 in Fujian Province. Zheng Minsheng, 42, killed eight primary school students after he was fired and dumped by his girlfriend. Zheng was executed on April 28.
Taizhou Intermediate People's Court revoked Xu Yuyuan's appeal. Xu appealed his death sentence on May 15, saying capital punishment was too severe considering no one was killed in his stabbing spree in a kindergarten in Jiangsu's Taixing City on April 29.
Xu, 47, was unemployed and confessed in the first trial that he was lashing out in anger against society by wielding a knife at preschool children.
Twenty-nine children were hurt in the attack, along with three teachers.
Xu's attack was one of five major assaults against schoolchildren across the country in the past few months that left 17 dead and more than 50 injured.
In the deadliest incident, on May 12, a villager in Shaanxi Province, Hu Huanmin, barged into a kindergarten and killed seven children and two adults with a kitchen knife.
The first attack happened on March 23 in Fujian Province. Zheng Minsheng, 42, killed eight primary school students after he was fired and dumped by his girlfriend. Zheng was executed on April 28.
- About Us
- |
- Terms of Use
- |
-
RSS - |
- Privacy Policy
- |
- Contact Us
- |
- Shanghai Call Center: 962288
- |
- Tip-off hotline: 52920043
- 沪ICP证：沪ICP备05050403号-1
- |
- 互联网新闻信息服务许可证：31120180004
- |
- 网络视听许可证：0909346
- |
- 广播电视节目制作许可证：沪字第354号
- |
- 增值电信业务经营许可证：沪B2-20120012
Copyright © 1999- Shanghai Daily. All rights reserved.Preferably viewed with Internet Explorer 8 or newer browsers.
