China Executes Man Who Killed Schoolchildren!!!

(April 28) – Chinese authorities say they've executed a former community doctor who stabbed to death eight children outside their primary school in a brazen attack that shocked the nation last month. Meanwhile, there's word of another school attack today in southern China, where police say a man with a knife has wounded 18 children and a teacher. None of the injures are life-threatening, a nurse in Leizhou city told The Associated Press. Today's attack and execution are likely to heighten calls for better security at schools across China, which has seen a string of school attacks in recent years.

State media say Zheng Minsheng died by firing squad today in Nanping City in eastern Fujian province, after his death sentence was approved by the country's Supreme Court.

On March 23, Zheng stormed a group of children lining up outside their school in the same city, killing eight of them and wounding another five. Parents who'd just dropped off their children watched the attack from afar in horror, before bystanders jumped on the 41-year-old assailant and police arrested him.

At trial, Zheng admitted to killing the children. He said he attacked them out of rage because he'd been jilted by a girlfriend and treated poorly by her wealthy family.

He was convicted on April 8 and executed this morning after losing an appeal on his death sentence, according to the state-run Xinhua news agency.

The Nanping murders marked one of the most heinous school attacks in recent years in China, which authorities have blamed on people with mental problems. Two weeks ago, a mentally ill man killed a second grader and an elderly woman in southern Guangxi province.

Today's execution came just one month after Zheng's crime. Such swift convictions and executions are common in China, which executes more people annually than any other nation in the world.

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