Road rage toddler killer asks for death penalty
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A MAN who killed a toddler by taking her from her buggy and throwing her to the ground during a row over a parking space has asked for the death penalty.
Han Lei, 39, told prosecutors he felt so guilty over what had happened that he just wanted to die, The Beijing News reported yesterday.
“I caused such a calamity for the child... please make sure that I am sentenced to death,” it quoted him as saying. “I don’t want to live anymore.”
Han lifted the little girl, who was almost three, from her buggy and threw her to the ground near a bus stop in Beijing last month, after her mother refused to make way for him to park his car.
He and a friend in the car then drove away. The toddler died two days later of her injuries.
Han has been charged with murder.
He was sentenced to life in prison in 1996 for stealing a car worth 410,000 yuan (US$67,000) but was released last year after the sentence was commuted, according to media reports.
The other man in the car, Li Ming, turned himself in to police last month and has been charged with sheltering a criminal, the newspaper said.
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