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Eh, jail is fine enough. Death penalty seems excessive.
Idk, that money is representative of peoples lives. He effectively stole millions of hours of human life for himself. People willing to do that are the incredibly deplorable imo. I do disagree with the death penalty on principle but I am not gonna wring my hands about this guy.
His death penalty was deferred according to someone in this comment section if that brings you comfort.
I don’t know what his sentence was, but death sentences in China are almost always “with reprieve.”
Chinese death sentences are usually imprisonment unless a new crime is commited, and generally reserved for corruption & other crimes where people nuke trust in public institutions for personal gain
Feeding this piece of shit is a further theft of public resources.
I think how it generally goes in China is that a suspended sentence on the death penalty means life imprisonment in the absence of any new crimes. So he might only serve jail time. But I don't have a serious source on that so don't commit crime in China based on my advice.
(besides that though, I always find it odd how people draw the line at what punishments are acceptable for criminals. Why is locking him in a box forever fine but killing him is excessive? Unless there's a concern of false conviction and a possibility of getting the ruling overturned, life imprisonment doesn't seem like it's the more ethical option.)