{"id":9252,"date":"2011-06-07T04:06:38","date_gmt":"2011-06-07T04:06:38","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2011-06-07T04:06:38","modified_gmt":"2011-06-07T04:06:38","slug":"China-Executes-Student-Over-Stabbing-Death","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/?p=9252","title":{"rendered":"China Executes Student Over Stabbing Death"},"content":{"rendered":"

A 21-year-old music student who accidentally struck a young woman with his car, then silenced her by stabbing her to death on the roadway, was executed Tuesday in Xian, in northwestern China, the state-run Xinhua news agency reported. The student, Yao Jiaxin, had lost an appeal of a death sentence handed down by a Xian court on April 22. The crime had fanned deep public resentment against the so-called \u201cfu er dai,\u201d the \u201crich second generation\u201d of privileged families who are widely believed to commit misdeeds with impunity because of their wealth or connections.<\/strong> <\/p>\n

Mr. Yao was the son of employees of a state-owned corporation in China\u2019s defense sector, one of them an executive and a military officer. The victim, Zhang Miao, 26, was a peasant with a family. Mr. Yao, a student at a local music conservatory, was driving a Chevy Cruze in Xian last Oct. 20 when he struck Ms. Zhang, who was riding a bicycle. The woman was not seriously injured, according to news reports. But when Mr. Yao realized that she was memorizing his license plate number, he stabbed her eight times with a knife. He said later that he feared the woman, a poor peasant, would \u201cbe hard to deal with\u201d should she seek compensation for her injuries. Mr. Yao was detained after a second auto accident that night and initially denied killing Ms. Zhang, but turned himself in two days later. <\/p>\n

Ms. Zhang\u2019s murder came just four days after another privileged son, Li Qiming, struck and killed a young university student with his automobile in Hebei Province, then fled the scene after telling guards who sought to stop him, \u201cMy father is Li Gang,\u201d a local police official. Both crimes stirred national outrage on China\u2019s social-networking Web sites; in January, Li Qiming was sentenced to six years in prison. Ms. Zhang\u2019s husband, Wang Hui, had rejected court-ordered compensation of about $6,900 for her death, calling it \u201cmoney stained with blood.\u201d Instead, he pledged to delay Ms. Zhang\u2019s burial until her killer was executed.<\/strong> <\/p>\n

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