In a rare move, Chinese authorities announced executions on Wednesday in two spectacular murder cases: on the same day, a couple who threw two small children out of the window of a high-rise building and a man who brutally murdered his mother were executed. had.
In particular, the murder of the two-year-old girl and her one-year-old brother in November 2020 in the southwestern Chinese city of Chongqing caused outrage throughout China. At the insistence of his lover, their father had simulated an accidental fall of the two little ones from the 15th floor window of a residential tower while their mother was away.
The case also caused horror on social media:
Children were a ‘burden’ for a new partner
Although the mother had already agreed to a divorce, according to the court, his girlfriend insisted on the death of the two children, which she saw as a “burden” on their future life together. According to the Chongqing People’s Court, the couple was sentenced to death in December 2021 and executed on Wednesday.
On the same day, the death sentence was carried out in eastern Fujian province against a man who killed his mother in 2015 by hitting him repeatedly with a barbell, the court there said. Chinese authorities keep the number of executions secret, but Amnesty International estimates that thousands of people are sentenced to death or executed in the People’s Republic every year, more than in any other country in the world.
Source: Krone
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