Chinese court upholds death penalty for police killer
20/10/2008 16:36
A Shanghai court has upheld the death penalty for Yang Jia, a jobless
Beijing man who stormed into a Shanghai police bureau earlier this year and
killed six officers.
After the final trial of Yang's case, the Shanghai
Higher People's Court turned down his appeal against the death sentence handed
down earlier by a local court, according to the final verdict the court
announced today.
The Shanghai court's death sentence verdict needs to be
ratified by the Supreme People's Court in Beijing.
Yang, 28, was sentenced to
death on Sept. 1 in the first trial at the Shanghai No. 2 Intermediate People's
Court for killing six officers and injuring four others in the July 1
assault.
A second trial was held last week to hear Yang's appeal.
Yang
stabbed a security guard at the police branch in Shanghai's Zhabei District and
started a fire at its gate. He then forced his way into the building and
attacked nine police officers, killing six of them. Three other police and the
security guard were injured.
Yang was apprehended at the scene and confessed
to the killings.
He was reportedly revenging Shanghai police for a lengthy
interrogation last October, when he was questioned for riding an unlicensed
bicycle. He later sued the officers for 10,000 yuan (US$1,464) in compensation
for psychological damage but the claim was rejected.
Xinhua
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