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Kindergarten attacker loses appeal on execution
By Wang Xiang |
May 26, 2010, Wednesday
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A COURT in Jiangsu Province today threw out the appeal against the death penalty for a man who attacked and injured 32 kindergarten pupils and teachers.
Taizhou Intermediate People's Court revoked Xu Yuyuan's appeal. Xu appealed against 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 Taixing city on April 29.
Xu, 47, was unemployed and confessed in the first trial that he was lashing out his anger against society by wielding a knife at preschool children.
Twenty-nine children were hurt in the attack, along with three teachers and one vigilant citizen. Xu's attack was one of five major assaults against schoolchildren in the past two months that left 17 dead and more than 50 hurt.
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 in March in Fujian Province. Zheng Minsheng, a 42-year old man living with his mother, killed eight primary school students after he was fired and dumped by his girl friend. Zheng was executed on April 28.
Tighter security at schools was ordered in Chinese cities. Police were ordered to open fire immediately and without mercy on any school attackers, Wu Heping, spokesman for the public security ministry said, according to a previous report.
Taizhou Intermediate People's Court revoked Xu Yuyuan's appeal. Xu appealed against 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 Taixing city on April 29.
Xu, 47, was unemployed and confessed in the first trial that he was lashing out his anger against society by wielding a knife at preschool children.
Twenty-nine children were hurt in the attack, along with three teachers and one vigilant citizen. Xu's attack was one of five major assaults against schoolchildren in the past two months that left 17 dead and more than 50 hurt.
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 in March in Fujian Province. Zheng Minsheng, a 42-year old man living with his mother, killed eight primary school students after he was fired and dumped by his girl friend. Zheng was executed on April 28.
Tighter security at schools was ordered in Chinese cities. Police were ordered to open fire immediately and without mercy on any school attackers, Wu Heping, spokesman for the public security ministry said, according to a previous report.
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