Baby killer plea denied

By Global Times – Xinhua Source:Global Times – Xinhua Published: 2013-7-24 23:48:01

A local court in Jilin Province Wednesday rejected an appeal and upheld the verdict in the case of a man who has been sentenced to death for killing a 2-month-old baby.

The provincial high people's court upheld the verdict the Changchun Intermediate People's Court made in the case of Zhou Xijun, 49, who was sentenced to death for the baby's murder and ordered to serve five years in jail and pay a fine of 50,000 yuan ($8,104) for stealing the car the baby was in on May 27.

Zhou appealed to the court for a more lenient judgment on the grounds that he surrendered to police.

The court rejected his appeal for his extremely cruel means of committing the crimes and the serious consequences.

On March 4, Zhou stole an SUV and drove it onto a highway. After finding a baby in the backseat, he strangled the infant and buried him in the snow. Zhou turned himself in to police one day after a massive search was launched.



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