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    China Executions - 2019

    China’s ‘Jack the Ripper’ executed for murder of 11 women and girls

    A Chinese serial killer who mutilated several of his 11 victims – the youngest of whom was eight – was executed on Thursday [January 3].

    Gao Chengyong, 54, nicknamed the “Jack the Ripper of China”, was sentenced to death in March by Baiyin Intermediate People’s Court in northwestern Gansu province for robbery, rape, murder and defiling the dead.

    After the sentence was confirmed by the Supreme People’s Court, Gao was put to death in Baiyin on Thursday morning, the Ministry of Public Security said.

    At trial in 2017, Gao pleaded guilty to crimes in Baiyin and Baotou in Inner Mongolia between 1988 and 2002. His victims were 11 females, most of them in their 20s.

    Gao’s killings created panic as the perpetrator was said to have targeted young women who lived alone.

    In 2004, Baiyin police offered 200,000 yuan for clues that led to his capture. Before Gao was arrested 12 years later, the case was regarded by authorities as one of the country’s most notorious series of unsolved crimes.

    The court found that Gao followed his victims home before raping and killing them. Many of his victims wore red clothes and he typically struck during daylight.

    Many were mutilated, their hands, ears, and “private parts” were cut off.

    “To satisfy his perverted desire to dishonour and sully corpses, many of his female victims’ corpses were damaged and violated,” Baiyin court said on Weibo when Gao was convicted in March.

    “The motives of the defendant’s crimes were despicable, his methods extremely cruel, the nature of the acts vile and the details of the crimes serious,” the court said.

    Police checked 100,000 pieces of fingerprint evidence while hunting for Gao. He was caught in August 2016 in Baiyin after a tip-off.

    Gao was identified as a lead suspect after a distant relative was arrested for bribery and provided a partial match with DNA left at a murder site.

    Police said Gao’s DNA and fingerprints matched those left at the scene of his crimes.

    https://www.scmp.com/news/china/soci...ls-executed-30
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    Chinese man executed for kindergarten knife attack

    By Christian Shepherd and Michael Perry
    Reuters

    BEIJING - A court in southern China has put a man to death after he injured 12 children in a knife attack at a kindergarten, the state broadcaster said on Monday.

    Violent crime is rare in China but there has been a series of knife and axe attacks in recent years, many targeting children.

    China Central Television said that in January 2017 Qin Pengan stabbed the children with a vegetable knife in order to extract revenge for his life not going as he wanted and a dispute with a neighbor.

    None of the children died from their injuries.

    A local court in Pingxiang city in south China’s Guangxi province sentenced Qin to death, and the sentence was carried out on Friday after being approved by the China’s Supreme People’s Court, the broadcaster said.

    Despite efforts to reduce the number of people executed every year, China still puts more people to death every year than any other country, according to estimates from rights groups.

    A Supreme People’s Court judge in December made a rare defense of the death penalty, saying that China could not abolish the system for fear of angering a public that overwhelmingly supports its use.

    https://www.reuters.com/article/us-c...-idUSKCN1P10KG

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    Interesting. I hadn't known that attempted murder was punishable by death in Red China.

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    Capital offences in China

    Crimes Endangering National Security

    • Treason
    • Separatism
    • Armed rebellion, rioting
    • Collaborating with the enemy
    • Spying or espionage
    • Selling state secrets
    • Providing material support to the enemy


    Crimes Endangering Public Security

    • Arson
    • Flooding
    • Manslaughter
    • Bombing
    • Spreading poisons
    • Spreading hazardous substances (e.g., radioactive, toxic, pathogenic)
    • Seriously endangering public safety, broadly construed
    • Sabotaging electricity
    • Sabotaging gas, fuel, petroleum, or other flammables or explosives
    • Hijacking aircraft
    • Illegal possession, transport, smuggling, or selling of explosives or firearms
    • Trafficking or smuggling nuclear materials
    • Illegally manufacturing, selling, transporting or storing hazardous materials
    • Theft of explosives or other dangerous material
    • Theft of firearms, ammunition or other dangerous material


    Economic crimes

    • Production or sale of counterfeit medicine
    • Production or sale of hazardous food products


    Crimes against persons

    • Intentional homicide
    • Intentional assault
    • Rape
    • Kidnapping
    • Human trafficking


    Crimes against property

    • Robbery


    Crimes against public order

    • Prison escape, jailbreaking
    • Raiding a prison
    • Smuggling, dealing, transporting or manufacturing drugs


    Crimes against national defense

    • Sabotaging weapons, military installations, or military communications
    • Providing substandard weapons or military installations


    Corruption and bribery

    • Embezzlement


    Breach of duty by soldiers

    • Insubordination
    • Concealment or false reporting of military intelligence
    • Refusing to pass or falsely passing orders
    • Surrender
    • Defection with aircraft or ships
    • Selling military secrets
    • Theft of military weaponry or supplies
    • Illegally selling or transferring military weaponry or supplies
    • Killing innocent inhabitants of war zones or plundering their property
    • Cowardice
    Last edited by Steven; 01-11-2019 at 09:06 AM.

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    China executes man who killed 15 people in car attack

    AFP

    Chinese authorities on Tuesday executed a man who killed 15 people after ramming a car into a crowded square in central Hunan province last year.

    Last September, Yang Zanyun ploughed a Land Rover into pedestrians at a public square in Hengdong city before slashing at people with a shovel and dagger.

    Fifteen people were killed and 43 others were injured.

    The Hengyang Intermediate People's Court in Hunan province said Tuesday it "carried out the death penalty" on Yang Zanyun for "endangering public security through dangerous methods".

    Local police had called him a "vengeful repeat offender" at the time, naming drug charges, theft and intentionally causing hurt as previous offences in their statement.

    China has experienced a spate of similar incidents in recent months.

    In late November, a car ploughed into a group of children crossing a street in front of an elementary school in northeastern Liaoning province, killing five people and injuring at least 19.

    The driver said he "chose his victims at random" and had reportedly been contemplating suicide due to domestic troubles before the tragedy occurred.

    In December, eight people were killed and 22 injured after a man hijacked a bus and crashed into pedestrians in eastern Fujian province.

    He had killed a local official and police officer before commandeering the bus, according to reports by Chinese media.

    https://www.france24.com/en/20190129...ple-car-attack

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    Former Didi driver executed for rape, murder

    By Cao Yin
    China Daily

    Zhong Yuan, a Didi driver who raped and killed a 19-year-old female passenger in Wenzhou, Zhejiang province, last year, was executed by a court on Friday after China's top court approved his death penalty.

    The Wenzhou Intermediate People's Court announced the decision made by the Supreme People's Court on Zhong's case and then executed him under the supervision of prosecutors.

    Before the execution, Zhong was allowed by the court to meet his family members.

    The 28-year-old native of Sichuan province had debts from online gambling and planned on robbing his female taxi passengers, the court said. Zhong, who worked as a driver for Didi, the country's largest ride-hailing company, had prepared tools for the robberies including knives, masks and adhesive tape.

    On Aug 23, last year, he unsuccessfully tried to rob a female passenger surnamed Lin. The next day, he raped and stabbed to death a 19-year-old female passenger surnamed Zhao in Yueqing county, Wenzhou. He dumped her body on the slope of a cliff near the highway.

    The case stirred a public outcry and triggered a nationwide safety check of drivers working in the online ride-hailing industry. It also prompted the Ministry of Transport to announce plans to tighten regulation of the industry.

    On Feb 1, Zhong was handed the death penalty and fined 25,000 yuan ($3,500) by the Wenzhou court after being found guilty of robbery, rape and intentional homicide. The Zhejiang High People's Court later upheld the judgment.

    Under the Chinese Criminal Procedure Law, any death penalty made by a lower court must be submitted to the SPC for review before execution.

    On Friday, the top court said in a statement that Zhong should be heavily penalized, as his behavior was extremely cruel.

    "The ruling made by the court in Wenzhou was based on sufficient evidence and clear facts," it said. "The application of the law and the sentence given by the court were also correct and reasonable."

    http://global.chinadaily.com.cn/a/20...e35568dec.html
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