This morning, a Chinese street vendor named Xia Junfeng was executed. Xia had been found guilty of murdering two urban enforcers, known colloquially as chengguan, in 2009. Xia’s lawyers argued he acted in self-defense, presenting six eyewitness accounts and statements from doctors who saw Xia’s injuries to show that the two chengguan had beaten Xia.
More than two decades after a young man in the northern province of Hebei was executed for the alleged rape and murder of a woman, his mother is anxiously awaiting a retrial to clear his name.Zhang Huanzhi’s only son, Nie Shubin, was executed in 1995, when he was 20, for raping and killing a woman in a cornfield near Shijiazhuang, the provincial capital. A decade later,
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The Hebei High People s Court rejected Wang Shujin s appeal on Tuesday, upholding his convictions of rape and intentional homicide as well as his death sentence, a report from the Beijing News said.
Wang, a high-profile criminal from Hebei province who has been sitting on death row for about a decade for serial rape and murder, was sentenced to 15 years in prison for rape and received the death penalty for intentional homicide on Nov 24 after the provincial Handan Intermediate People s Court identified the four rapes, three killings and an attempted killing he committed from 1993 to 1995.
The death penalty will be submitted to the Supreme People s Court, China s top court, for review, and can be carried out if it is approved by the top court, according to the Criminal Procedure Law.
Death row inmate stands trial again By CAO YIN | chinadaily.com.cn | Updated: 2020-12-18 15:02 Share CLOSE Wang Shujin signs an acknowledgement letter of the court ruling at Hebei High People s Court, on Sept 27, 2013. [Photo/Hebei High People s Court]
Wang Shujin, a native of Hebei province who has been sitting on death row for about a decade for serial rape and murder, stood trial again after he initiated a criminal appeal against the ruling last month.
The Hebei High People s Court spent more than two hours hearing Wang s appeal on Friday morning, but it said it would announce its ruling at a later date.