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    Ex-husband of Douyin influencer Lamu executed for setting her on fire during livestream

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    A Chinese man was executed by a court in Southwest China's Sichuan Province on Saturday for setting his ex-wife, who was also a Chinese Douyin influencer, on fire during livestream and caused the latter's death.

    According to the Intermediate People's Court of the Aba Tibetan and Qiang Autonomous Prefecture, the criminal of intentional homicide, named Tang Lu, has been executed according to the order of the Supreme People's Court. Prior to the execution, Tang was arranged to meet his family in order to protect his legitimate rights.

    Tang was given a death penalty for the crime of intentional homicide in October 2021.

    Tang and Lamu got married in 2009. During their marriage, they quarreled many times and Tang had beaten Lamu several times. After they divorced in June, 2020, Tang repeatedly sought to restore the marriage, but was rejected by Lamu, according to a previous statement of the court.

    On September 14, 2020, Tang went to the home of Lamu's father and sprayed gasoline on Lamu, who was livestreaming in the kitchen, and set her on fire.

    Lamu died after about half a month of treatment.

    The court said the crime was extremely cruel and its consequences very grave, leading to severe punishment for Tang.

    Born in 1990, Lamu had about 75,000 followers on Douyin. She used to share her rural daily life on the platform. Her case triggered heated discussions over domestic violence at that time.

    https://www.globaltimes.cn/page/202207/1271199.shtml

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    Quote Originally Posted by Steven View Post
    A Chinese man was executed by a court in Southwest China's Sichuan Province on Saturday...
    The wording of this is kind of strange, it makes it sound like the judge sentenced him, then immediately drew a rifle and lit him up
    Violence and death seem to be the only answers that some people understand.

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    Now that would be some swift justice right there.
    "There is a point in the history of a society when it becomes so pathologically soft and tender that among other things it sides even with those who harm it, criminals, and does this quite seriously and honestly. Punishing somehow seems unfair to it, and it is certain that imagining ‘punishment’ and ‘being supposed to punish’ hurts it, arouses fear in it." Friedrich Nietzsche

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    China's former justice minister jailed for life

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    Fu Zhenghua was given a suspended death sentence following a bribery conviction. The sentence comes amidst a strict anti-corruption crusade by Chinese Premier Xi Jinping.

    China's former justice minister, Fu Zhenghua, has been sentenced to death with a two-year reprieve for accepting bribes, state media said on Thursday.

    Fu's death sentence will be commuted to a life imprisonment after two years, with no possibility of parole, state media added.

    Sixty-seven-year-old Fu — who led several high-profile probes and crackdowns into corruption — admitted to taking bribes exceeding 117 million yuan (€16.5 million, 16.3 million).

    He pleaded guilty to abusing his power while serving in various government roles, including chief of police for the capital, Beijing, from 2005-21. According to state television, the ex-minister was attempting to hide crimes committed by his brother and other associates.

    Xi's anti-corruption campaign
    The verdict comes amid a stepped-up purge of officials ahead of a crucial Communist Party congress where President Xi Jinping is widely expected to secure a third term as the country’s leader.

    A long-running anti-corruption crusade has been in place since Xi became the Communist Party's secretary general in 2012.

    On Wednesday, three ex-chiefs of police of Shanghai, Chongqing and Shanxi province were also sentenced to years of prison time — including one for life — for corruption.

    https://www.dw.com/en/chinas-former-...ife/a-63200185
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    Official gets death for corruption involving 3b yuan

    By Cao Yin
    China Daily

    Li Jianping, a former senior Party official in the economic and technological development zone in Hohhot, Inner Mongolia autonomous region, was sentenced to death for multiple crimes on Tuesday.

    An intermediate people's court in the region's Hinggan League sentenced Li, who once served as the head of the zone's Communist Party of China working committee, to death for corruption, with a suspended death sentence for bribery, life imprisonment for embezzlement and a five-year prison term for indulging organized crimes.

    In combination, the court decided to give Li the death penalty.

    It also stripped Li of his political rights and confiscated all of his personal assets. Additionally, the interest gained from his corruption and embezzlement was recovered and returned to the zone, and the interest obtained from his bribery was turned over to the State treasury.

    From 2016 to 2018, Li took advantage of his position in the zone with others to misappropriate more than 1.44 billion yuan ($199 million) of State funds, of which, some 289 million yuan he had not yet obtained, according to the court.

    From 2009 to 2014, when Li served as the chairman of Chunhua Water Group in Hohhot and the Party chief of the zone's CPC working committee, he offered assistance to others in tendering for project contracts, and accepted more than 577 million yuan in return, it said.

    Between 2006 and 2016, Li, along with others, embezzled more than 1.05 billion yuan in public funds for personal use, of which 404 million yuan had not yet been returned when he was placed under investigation, it said.

    Moreover, Li for a long time worked with Zhao Wenyuan, a convicted gang member, and allowed Zhao and his gangsters to conduct illegal activities in demolition projects, land acquisitions and job arrangements, it added.

    "Li should receive capital punishment because he committed multiple crimes and the sum of his illegal gains was extremely large, and not only caused an extremely negative social impact, but also resulted in extremely major losses in the interest of the country and the people," the court said.

    It revealed that some money had been used for gambling and transferred overseas by Li, and some of the public funds he embezzled had not been returned.

    Li, 62, a native of Hebei province, started his career in 1982 and joined the Party in 1985. He served in several positions in Hohhot, including as head of the water authority and chairman of Chunhua Water Group.

    He became Party chief of the zone's CPC working committee in 2011, and was placed under investigation in September 2018 for suspected serious violations of discipline and law.

    In August 2019, he was expelled from the Party and removed from office.

    https://www.chinadaily.com.cn/a/2022...b29e7a5e0.html
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    ‘I must see you die at all costs’: grieving Chinese mother whose children, 1 and 2, were murdered by ex-husband slams his death row pleas for mercy

    Fran Lu
    South China Morning Post

    A Chinese woman – whose ex-husband killed their two children at the behest of his girlfriend – has said she will never forgive him despite letters he sent her begging for forgiveness while on death row.

    The man, Zhang Bo, threw his one-year-old son, Ruirui, and two-year-old daughter, Xuexue, out of the window of his 15th-floor flat in southwestern China’s Chongqing Municipality in November 2020.

    He committed the horrific crime so he could marry his girlfriend, Ye Chengchen, who had an affair with Zhang before his divorce. She pressured him to commit the crime because she could not put up with marrying a man with children from previous marriage.

    Both Zhang and Ye were sentenced to death in December 2021. They have both appealed to the higher court to review the verdict.

    Prior to the appeal trial, the date of which has not yet been set, Zhang sent his ex-wife, Chen Meilin, who is also from Chongqing, three letters in January alone to ask for her forgiveness.

    Chen, 31, said Zhang was pretending to regret his crime in a bid for the courts to show him mercy and asked him to stop playing tricks to delay the trial.

    “The best way for you and Ye to atone for your crime is to accept the sentence of the first trial, and die quietly,” Chen wrote in a letter of reply to Zhang on February 8.

    “If people who committed such an atrocious crime don’t receive the death sentence, no child will be safe anymore,” she wrote.

    Chen said Zhang had not written her any letters during the 13 months between the killing of her two children and the first trial, or since they began dating in 2017.

    In the three letters dated January 1, 14 and 27, posted by Chen along with her reply in her Douyin video, Zhang offered to give Chen his mortgaged house as compensation and wrote at length about how he was filled with regret.

    Insisting that she would never forgive her ex-husband, Chen wrote at the end of the letter: “For the sake of my two children, I must see you die at all costs.”

    Chinese online observers expressed firm support for Chen’s decision. One pointed out that Zhang’s letters “are full of excuses and mentioned the children very little”.

    “He didn’t mean it when he said he was sorry,” the person added.

    According to the verdict of the first trial by the Chongqing No. 5 Intermediate People’s Court, Zhang and Ye conspired to kill the two children from May to November 2020, and attempted murder a week before he actually committed the crime on November 2.

    Zhang only had custody of Ruirui before the age of six, and Xuexue lived with Chen’s family after their divorce. Chen said Zhang had been ignoring Xuexue, and suddenly offered to look after her in October that year.

    “When I asked Xuexue who she likes better, daddy or mummy,” Chen remembered the conversation with her daughter after she returned from Zhang’s place, “she said daddy.”

    Chen described the agony she and her parents had gone through since the tragedy, adding that seeing justice for her loved ones is what keeps her going.

    https://www.scmp.com/news/people-cul...red-ex-husband
    "There is a point in the history of a society when it becomes so pathologically soft and tender that among other things it sides even with those who harm it, criminals, and does this quite seriously and honestly. Punishing somehow seems unfair to it, and it is certain that imagining ‘punishment’ and ‘being supposed to punish’ hurts it, arouses fear in it." Friedrich Nietzsche

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    China executes notorious female serial killer for brutally killing seven people


    Lao Rongzhi, who murdered seven people including a three-year-old girl, was sentenced to death in China.

    China executed a notorious female serial killer by death penalty on Monday (Dec 18) who was accused of killing seven people in different cities.

    The woman, named Lao Rongzhi, was executed in Nanchang, East China’s Jiangxi Province, reported the state-run communist party’s mouthpiece Global Times.

    The woman engaged in a series of crimes, including robbery, extortion, and the brutal murder of seven individuals, between 1996 and 1999.

    According to reports, while Lao would pick targets at entertainment venues, her boyfriend Fa Ziying used to kill them.

    The woman spent 20 years on the run, evading authorities using aliases. Finally, she was arrested in the Fujian province in 2019 and charged with the crimes of intentional homicide, robbery and kidnapping in August 2020.

    Lao’s appeal rejected by High People's Court

    Last year, Lao was given the death penalty by the Intermediate People's Court of Nanchang, Jiangxi, a decision she contested in the Jiangxi Provincial High People's Court.

    In August this year, the hearing of the case took place and the high court upheld the death sentence.

    Lao had all her political rights stripped and properties confiscated as a result of the verdict.

    The court found that Lao and her ex-boyfriend intentionally and illegally took the lives of others; used violence or threats to gain illegal possession of others' property; and kidnapped others to extort money or property.

    Lao’s arguments

    During the trial, Lao claimed that she was a victim of her boyfriend, who allegedly used to torture her. She claimed that she even thought of committing suicide after being continuously beaten by him.

    Later, she also tendered an apology to the families of her victims.

    Death penalty in China

    An Amnesty International report earlier this year revealed that China, along with Iran and Saudi Arabia, accounted for the vast majority of known judicial executions last year.

    While the human rights group did not reveal a precise number for China, it said “thousands of executions” were carried out in 2022 by the Chinese government, which maintains a zero-tolerance approach towards any kind of political dissent.

    https://www.wionews.com/world/china-...ple-670797/amp
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    Father and girlfriend executed for children's high-rise murder

    By Deng Rui and Tan Yingzi
    China Daily

    A father in Chongqing who threw his two children out of a high-rise apartment window in 2020, along with his girlfriend who had encouraged him, were executed on Wednesday after China's top court recently approved their death sentence.

    The Supreme People's Court reviewed the case and held that defendant Zhang Bo, the father, and defendant Ye Chengchen, Zhang's girlfriend, had committed premeditated murder.

    The couple considered Zhang's children as an obstacle to their marriage and staged an "accidental" fall, resulting in the deaths of the two young children, a 2-year-old girl and a 1-year-old boy. In the joint crime, their roles and overall influence were equivalent, with each playing a primary role and being principal offenders.

    The court held that their motive was despicable and the means brutal, warranting severe consequences in accordance with the law.

    The Chongqing No 5 Intermediate People's Court handed down the death penalty in its original judgment on Dec 28, 2021. Both defendants appealed the ruling after the first trial. On April 6, 2023, the second trial for Zhang and Ye began at the Chongqing Higher People's Court.

    On May 11, 2023, the Chongqing High People's Court upheld the original ruling and said that the sentences handed down to Zhang and Ye were appropriate. Its ruling would be submitted to the Supreme People's Court for approval.

    In China, any death sentence handed down by a lower court is submitted to the Supreme People's Court for further review. Executions are only allowed if the top court approves.

    https://www.chinadaily.com.cn/a/2024...cbdae8ef4.html
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