Mother hails court decision to review executed son’s case
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FOR the past nine years, Zhang Huanzhi’s life was filled with regret, pain and sadness. But a recent court decision has soothed her torment, at least to some extent.
Zhang’s son, Nie Shubin, was executed 19 years ago for the rape and murder of a woman in north China’s Hebei’s Province. However, in 2005, another man confessed to the crime.
Since 2005, Zhang, already in her 70s, has visited Hebei Higher People’s Court countless times, demanding a review of the case to prove her son’s innocence.
“I have so much regret because I did not even get to see my son before he was executed,” she said. “The only thing I could do was try to prove his innocence to ease my pain.”
Zhang said she was relieved when the Supreme People’s Court last Friday appointed Shandong Higher People’s Court to review the case.
“I am more than thrilled,” a tearful Zhang told reporters.
Liu Bojin, a Beijing-based lawyer, is to act on Zhang’s behalf to look through related files and help her and the public who demand the truth.
The high-profile case is the subject of heated discussion online, with many people voicing support for Zhang.
“I hope that the review of the case will bring us justice and comfort the soul of my lost child,” Zhang said.
Wang Shujin, 47, was apprehended by police in 2005 for three unconnected rape and murder cases, and confessed to the rape and murder of the the woman in Nie’s case.
Wang, sentenced to death in March 2007, said that it was he who had raped and murdered the woman in a cornfield on the outskirts of Shijiazhuang, the provincial capital, in 1994 and that Nie was innocent of the crime.
However, Hebei Higher People’s Court, which approved the death penalty on Nie in 1995, did not believe him in a retrial last year and Nie’s verdict still stands.
The review of Nie’s case is aimed at “ensuring judicial fairness and responding to public concerns,” the SPC said.
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