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China: Couple Executed For Throwing Children Off 15th Floor

On November 2, 2020,  a Chinese man, Zhang Bo and Ye Chengchen, his girlfriend, threw two of their children from a 15th-floor apartment in Chongqing. The case had triggered nationwide outrage. The execution occurred after the country’s highest court recently approved their death sentence.

Zhang and Ye were charged with intentional homicide by the local prosecutors after police investigations revealed that they had planned to kill the two preschool-aged children.

Zhang and Ye allegedly met on social media and began dating, according to an indictment released by the public prosecutor’s office in Chongqing. Ye repeatedly warned Zhang that she would not live with him if he had kids. Zhang was a divorcee.

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Zhang and Ye started planning how to murder the former’s two kids in February 2020. They spoke about it multiple times, either in person or over the well-known Chinese messaging app WeChat. In the end, they agreed to plan an unintentional killing that would result in the deaths of the young children.

Chen Meilin, the mother of the children, requested severe punishment for her ex-husband and his girlfriend during the case’s first trial in July 2021.

On December 28, 2021, Zhang and Ye were found guilty of intentional homicide by a Chongqing court and given the death penalty. Then, Zhang and Ye appealed.

Zhang reportedly retracted his previous confession to the crime in court during a second trial that took place on April 6 of last year, saying that his children’s deaths were the result of an accident. The Chinese Supreme People’s Court, which has the final say over cases in China, maintained Zhang and Ye’s death sentence and declared that they had unlawfully and deliberately taken other people’s lives. The Supreme Court noted that what they did was commit the crime of intentional homicide.

 

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