A Chinese couple have been sentenced to death for killing their two sons from a previous marriage so they could start a new family together.
Zhang Bo and his girlfriend Ye Chengchen are believed to have died by lethal injection on Wednesday after China’s highest court recently upheld their death sentences, China Daily reported.
Zhang was convicted of throwing her two children out of a high-rise apartment window from the 15th floor of a residential tower in southwest China’s Chongqing in 2020.
Ye was also convicted after a court ruled he forced Zhang to kill the young children, a two-year-old girl and a one-year-old boy, because he saw them as “obstructionists” and helped grade their deaths as “accidents,” The Independent reported. .
Zhang Bo and his girlfriend Ye Chengchen are believed to have died by lethal injection on Wednesday. AsiaWire
A Chinese couple have been sentenced to death for killing their two sons from a previous marriage so they could start a new family together.
Zhang Bo and his girlfriend Ye Chengchen are believed to have died by lethal injection on Wednesday after China’s highest court recently upheld their death sentences, China Daily reported.
Zhang was convicted of throwing her two children out of a high-rise apartment window from the 15th floor of a residential tower in southwest China’s Chongqing in 2020.
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Ye was also convicted after a court ruled he forced Zhang to kill the young children, a two-year-old girl and a one-year-old boy, because he saw them as “obstructionists” and helped grade their deaths as “accidents,” The Independent reported. .
The pair were sentenced to death in 2021 but were only carried out this week following a lengthy appeals process that resulted in a second trial for Zhang and Ye, China Daily states.
The Chongqing High People’s Court upheld the original decision and said that the sentences handed down to Zhang and Ye were appropriate.
Zhang was convicted of throwing her two children out of a high-rise apartment window. AsiaWire
The decision was then submitted to the Supreme People’s Court for approval, which found the two roles and their overall influence to be equivalent, with each playing a leading role and being the main culprit.
The court ruled their motive was “heinous” and meant “brutal,” which required severe consequences according to the law, according to local media.
It is not clear how they were killed earlier today, but the most common method in China is lethal injection, according to the Daily Mail.
Zhang’s video after the incident showed him in grief. AsiaWire
Zhang had started an extramarital affair with Ye without telling her that he was married and had two children.
But after he divorced his then-wife Chen Meilin in February 2020, Ye urged Zhang to kill his two children, whom he “perceived as an obstacle” to their marriage and “a burden on their future life together”, the court heard.
After throwing his daughter Zhang Ruixue and son Zhang Yangrui to their deaths in November 2020, a video of Zhang after the incident appears to show him grieving over what he had just done.
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He was also seen banging his head against the wall and sobbing, The Express reported.
At the time, Zhang claimed that he was sleeping when the child “fell” and said he woke up to people shouting downstairs.
The child’s mother said Zhang had asked to look after her daughter on the day he killed them both.
“When I heard my children were thrown from the 15th floor by their father and mistress, I could not find words to describe my feelings,” he said.
“I can’t imagine what my children are going through from the 15th floor down. Are they desperate? Are they afraid?”
Zhang and Ye’s crimes have sent shockwaves across China because of the “cold-blooded” specter, as well as the age of the victims.
Their executions quickly rose to the top of the list of trending topics on Chinese social media site Weibo on Wednesday, receiving nearly 200 million views.
“Today is really a good day,” read one well-liked comment under a related post by state news agency Xinhua.
“The punishment fits the crime,” wrote another.
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Source: thtrangdai.edu.vn/en/
