China executes father and new partner who killed man’s two children

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Chinese officials they executed today to Zhang Bo and his partner Ye Chengchencondemned Kill the two children on the first floor by throwing them from the fifteenth floor.the result of a conspiracy between the two.

The children’s father, Zhang, and his new partner, Ye, both 29, were executed this morning in the city of Chongqing (center) after the Supreme Court reviewed their case and upheld the death penalty imposed by the Intermediate People’s Court. The city, national media reported this Wednesday. In its statement, the Supreme Court stated that during this process, it “interrogated the defendants in accordance with the law, secured their rights”, “heard the defense lawyer” and approved the verdict “after examining the evidence of both parties”. sentence.

In its decision, the court assured that the deliberate double murder committed on November 2, 2020 was “extremely cruel” and “exceeded all limits of law and morality.”

The judge’s decision predicted that: Zhang hid the fact that he was married and had two children with Ye, with whom he started a relationship in 2019.A two-year-old girl and a one-year-old boy died after falling from a great height in what initially appeared to be an accident.

After formalizing the divorce in 2020, the convicted woman learned of Zhang’s conditions under which she would receive custody of one of the siblings. You pressured the father to get rid of the children because neither she nor her family could accept a relationship with a man who already had a child.

According to the children’s mother, Zhang assured the hearing that during the events, she had a video call with Ye, who slit her wrists and threatened to commit suicide if she did not end her children’s lives. doomed from now on He threw these out his apartment window.

The minors’ grandmother assured after the execution that although her grandchildren’s death was a “constant pain” for the family, at least for the parricide and his partner, the death penalty “provides psychological comfort” and is “fair for the children.” two children,” reports local media Red Star News.

Chinese authorities do not provide official data on the number of people sentenced to death, but reports from Amnesty International suggest that “thousands of executions are believed to have been carried out in China.”

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