BEIJING, Mar 29: A Chinese student who killed a fellow undergraduate over a love affair has been sentenced to death by the high court of east China’s Anhui province.
The Anhui Provincial People’s High Court handed down the second-trial verdict to Hu Hengjiang finding him guilty of intentional homicide, an announcement by the court said.
Hu, a student of Anhui Medical University at the time, held a grudge against the victim surnamed Tan, who had been chasing a girl.
Hu ambushed Tan in the university’s library on December 20, 2012, and hacked him to death with an axe. Hu tried to call the police at the scene, however he could not get through. Campus security controlled the area and Hu was later seized by the police.
At the first trial in February this year, Hu received a death sentence with a reprieve, claiming he killed Tan on impulse.
On February 20, the procuratorate of Hefei City appealed against the ruling for being too lenient.
Anhui Provincial People’s High Court overruled Hu’s claim that he killed on impulse and said the first ruling was “obviously inappropriate”, state-run Xinhua news agency reported. (AGENCIES)
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