A kindergarten teacher in China was executed on Thursday after being sentenced to death for poisoning children four years ago, in a case that received much media attention.
The teacher bought sodium nitrite over the Internet to take revenge on her husband and later used the sodium salt in the nursery after a dispute with a co-worker, various state media reported today.
On March 27, 2019, he added sodium nitrite to the rice porridge consumed by the minors, resulting in the poisoning of 25 of the children and the death of one of them ten months later after multiple organ failure.
In the first instance, the teacher was sentenced to death for the crime of throwing dangerous products into food, in addition to the deprivation of her civil rights for life.
The woman appealed the sentence, but the Henan Province High Court (center) rejected the appeal and upheld the death sentence, which was carried out on Thursday.
The case of this teacher, identified as Wang Yun, is just one of several deaths or violence in Chinese kindergartens in recent years.
Last Monday, a 25-year-old man carried out a knife attack at a kindergarten in the Chinese town of Lianjiang, in the southeastern province of Guangdong, causing at least six deaths and one injury.
The Chinese authorities do not provide official data on the number of those sentenced to death, but in its 2022 annual report, the human rights organization Amnesty International noted that “thousands of executions are believed to have been carried out” in the country. .
EFE
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