A Beijing man charged with the intentional homicide of a 2-year-girl was executed last Friday, according to the Beijing No. 1 Intermediate People's Court.
Murderer Han Lei died by lethal injection.
In July 2013, Lei grabbed the 34-month-old baby out of her stroller and threw her to the ground of a parking lot located in Beijing's southern Daxing district. The 39-year-old was upset at the child’s mother for standing in a vacant parking space. The girl – identified only as Sun - sustained severe injuries, and died days later.
“I never wanted to hurt anyone, let alone a child,” Han said.
Lei and driver Li Ming arrived at a bus station about 9pm on July 23 last year. Apparently upset about the lack of parking available, Han exited his friend’s vehicle from the passenger side, and approached the mother who was standing in a free space.
“We didn’t want to stop the car at the bus station, but it was the only way to go,” he said of his actions. “So I go out to talk with her, but she wasn’t polite.”
Han was on his way to a KTV parlor, and claimed he was intoxicated. After getting in a heated arguemnt, he slapped the woman.
“I felt ashamed fighting a woman in public, so I transferred my rage to the handcart, throwing it to the ground,” he said. “I didn’t know what I’d thrown until someone shouted there was a kid.”
Realizing something terrible had just happened (ie. the senseless and gruesome murder of an innocent child) Han got back in Li's car and fled the scene. Authorities found him the next day at a swimming pool located in southwest Fangshan district.
Han was charged with intentional homicide. He was sentenced the death penalty in September 2013. The Beijing man lodged an appeal, arguing that he was near sighted and didn’t know the little girl was in the handcart. Surveillance footage shows Han taking the 34-month-old baby out of her stroller and throwing her to the ground. The Beijing Higher People’s Court rejected his claim in November 2013, and the death penalty was upheld.
The driver of the vehicle, Li Ming, was charged with harboring a criminal. The Beijing No. 1 Intermediate People’s Court sentenced Li to a two-year sentence on top of a prior three-year sentence that he had yet to complete (because he was on parole).
Han had only just been out of prison for nine months before the incident.
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