A Chinese couple has been executed for murdering the man’s two children from his previous marriage in order to start a new family.
Zhang Bo and his girlfriend Ye Chengchen are believed to have died by lethal injection on Wednesday after China’s Supreme Court recently approved their death sentences. China Daily I will report.
Zhang was found guilty in 2020 of throwing two children out of a window from the 15th floor of a high-rise apartment building in Chongqing, southwestern China.
Ms. Ye also accused Ms. Zhang of killing her young children, a 2-year-old girl and a 1-year-old boy, for helping her label them as “disabled” and stage their deaths as “deaths.” He was found guilty of coercion and was found guilty. Coincidence”Autumn, independent person I will report.
A Chinese couple has been executed for murdering the man’s two children from his previous marriage in order to start a new family.
Zhang Bo and his girlfriend Ye Chengchen are believed to have died by lethal injection on Wednesday after China’s Supreme Court recently approved their death sentences. China Daily I will report.
Zhang was found guilty in 2020 of throwing two children out of a window from the 15th floor of a high-rise apartment building in Chongqing, southwestern China.
Ms. Ye also accused Ms. Zhang of killing her young children, a 2-year-old girl and a 1-year-old boy, for helping her label them as “disabled” and stage their deaths as “deaths.” He was found guilty of coercion and was found guilty. Coincidence”Autumn, independent person I will report.
The two were sentenced to death in 2021, but were finally executed this week after a lengthy appeals process, resulting in a second trial for Zhang and Ye, China Daily said. ing.
The Chongqing High People’s Court upheld the original verdict and said the sentences handed down to Zhang and Ye were appropriate.
The judgment was then submitted to the Supreme People’s Court for approval, and the court found that the roles and overall influence of both parties were equal, and that each played a major role and was the main culprit.
According to local media, the court found that their motives were “despicable”, their methods “brutal” and that, according to the law, they deserved serious consequences.
It was not clear how they died today, but the most common method in China is lethal injection. daily mail.
Chan had begun an extramarital affair with Ye without telling her that he was married and had two children.
However, after he divorced his then-wife Chen Meilin in February 2020, Ye urged Zhang to kill their two children, calling it an “obstacle” to their marriage and a “burden on their future joint life.” The court considered that this was the case.
After killing her daughter Zhang Ruixue and son Zhang Yangrui by suicide in November 2020, a video of Zhang after the incident shows her grieving over her actions.
He was also seen banging his head against the wall and sobbing uncontrollably. The Express I will report.
At the time, Chan claimed he was asleep when the children “fell down” and said he was woken up by people screaming downstairs.
The child’s mother said she asked Chan to take care of her daughter on the day he killed them both.
“The moment I heard that the children had actually been thrown from the 15th floor by their father and his mistress, I couldn’t find the words to explain how I felt,” she said.
“I couldn’t imagine what my children went through from the 15th floor to the ground. Were they desperate? Were they afraid?”
Zhang and Ye’s crime sent shockwaves across China not only because of the age of the victims, but also because of their “cold-blooded” plan.
Their executions quickly rose to the top of the trending topics list on Chinese social media site Weibo on Wednesday, garnering nearly 200 million views.
“Today is a really good day,” read a widely liked comment under a related post by state news agency Xinhua.
“The punishment fits the crime,” another wrote.
