Slayer sentence stands
By Jane Chen and Wang Xiang |
April 21, 2010, Wednesday
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A COURT yesterday upheld the death sentence of a former doctor who murdered eight primary school pupils and seriously injured another five in a bloodbath outside a school gate.
Southeast China's Fujian Province Higher People's Court threw out the appeal by 42-year-old Zheng Minsheng against the first verdict handed down on April 8 by Nanping Intermediate People's Court.
Zheng, who once worked for a community hospital in Nanping, insisted at yesterday's hearing that he was "forced to kill people after being persecuted by others."
He showed no contrition or emotion - a carbon copy of his demeanor at the first trial.
Zhang told the court at the first hearing that it was "karma" for him to attack the 13 pupils and a case of "cause and consequence."
Zheng said yesterday that he knew he deserved the death sentence but wanted people to know what actually prompted him to kill and maim the children.
Zhang carried out the knife attack on March 23 outside Nanping Experimental Primary School, in Fujian.
Neighbors said Zheng "started to act weird" about a year previously after he quit his job and his girlfriend left him. He had no history of mental illness, according to police. Zheng said after his arrest on the day of the atrocity that he planned to kill 30 students to exact revenge on his former girlfriend.
Southeast China's Fujian Province Higher People's Court threw out the appeal by 42-year-old Zheng Minsheng against the first verdict handed down on April 8 by Nanping Intermediate People's Court.
Zheng, who once worked for a community hospital in Nanping, insisted at yesterday's hearing that he was "forced to kill people after being persecuted by others."
He showed no contrition or emotion - a carbon copy of his demeanor at the first trial.
Zhang told the court at the first hearing that it was "karma" for him to attack the 13 pupils and a case of "cause and consequence."
Zheng said yesterday that he knew he deserved the death sentence but wanted people to know what actually prompted him to kill and maim the children.
Zhang carried out the knife attack on March 23 outside Nanping Experimental Primary School, in Fujian.
Neighbors said Zheng "started to act weird" about a year previously after he quit his job and his girlfriend left him. He had no history of mental illness, according to police. Zheng said after his arrest on the day of the atrocity that he planned to kill 30 students to exact revenge on his former girlfriend.
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