Man sentenced to death for courtroom stabbings
By Jane Chen |
July 22, 2010, Thursday
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A MAN has been sentenced to death for a stabbing spree that led to one death and another three injuries in a courtroom last year in southwestern China's Guizhou Province.
The Tongren Intermediate People's Court yesterday handed the verdict to He Shengkai, 30, for manslaughter, Xinhua news agency reported.
The court also deprived He of political rights for life.
He was apprehended in Zunyi City in September last year, four days after he forced his way into the city's intermediate people's court and attacked the officer and three other people with a knife.
The Tongren court said He had been sentenced in 2005 by a junior court in Zunyi to 2 1/2 years' jail for malicious wounding involving a house dispute with his neighbor.
His appeal of the decision was turned down by the intermediate people's court.
His lawyers had told him he only deserved a jail term of six months, according to his sister He Shengxian.
During his jail term, he wrote letters to the Zunyi intermediate court, repeatedly complaining about his unfair treatment during police interrogation and in the court. He maintained the court had wronged him.
But he didn't get any response to his complaints. Instead he was put on confinement punishment by the jail officers, the sister said.
Out of resentment, He decided to take revenge against the court officers after his release in March 2008.
At 4pm last September 14, He broke into the intermediate court in downtown Zunyi, stabbed the court policeman Zhong Shixin, two security guards and a woman clerk.
Zhong died in hospital that night.
The other three were injured, including two seriously.
The Tongren Intermediate People's Court yesterday handed the verdict to He Shengkai, 30, for manslaughter, Xinhua news agency reported.
The court also deprived He of political rights for life.
He was apprehended in Zunyi City in September last year, four days after he forced his way into the city's intermediate people's court and attacked the officer and three other people with a knife.
The Tongren court said He had been sentenced in 2005 by a junior court in Zunyi to 2 1/2 years' jail for malicious wounding involving a house dispute with his neighbor.
His appeal of the decision was turned down by the intermediate people's court.
His lawyers had told him he only deserved a jail term of six months, according to his sister He Shengxian.
During his jail term, he wrote letters to the Zunyi intermediate court, repeatedly complaining about his unfair treatment during police interrogation and in the court. He maintained the court had wronged him.
But he didn't get any response to his complaints. Instead he was put on confinement punishment by the jail officers, the sister said.
Out of resentment, He decided to take revenge against the court officers after his release in March 2008.
At 4pm last September 14, He broke into the intermediate court in downtown Zunyi, stabbed the court policeman Zhong Shixin, two security guards and a woman clerk.
Zhong died in hospital that night.
The other three were injured, including two seriously.
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