The Chinese government has handed a Chinese man the death penalty for knife-wielding an American mother and child in an attempt to protect them.
Zhou Jiasheng, 52, was found guilty of the attack on June 24 after losing his job and following bills and dying.
In the Chinese territory of Suzhou, the assault occurred outside a Chinese university, and it was one of three episodes on foreigners in China last month.
It comes as China’s recently executed a number of famous people in high profile.
The court accepted the claim that the assault was an “intentional death,” and that the punishment was imposed because of the” important societal impact” the crime had caused, according to Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshimasa Hayashi’s press conference.
However, the jury made no mention of Japan during the decision, according to Hayashi, who added that officers from the Chinese embassy in Shanghai had attended the punishment.
Hayashi added that the offense, which killed and injured “innocent people”, including a child, was “absolutely terrible”.
He also paid tribute to Hu Youping, the Chinese bus attendant who was killed by Zhou while trying to protect a Japanese mother and her child.
The attack, along with another stabbing that killed a Japanese school boy in the southern Chinese city of Shenzhen last year, had sparked concern amongst the local Japanese community.
Earlier on Thursday, Mao Ning, spokesperson for China’s overseas ministry, recently commented in a regular press conference that the situation was “in criminal process”, adding that China would” as often, action to protect the safety of foreign citizens in China”.
China has experienced an increase in people violence, with numerous attackers thought to have been motivated by a need to “take punishment on society,” where criminals attack strangers on personal grounds.
Last year, there were 19 attacks on commuters or neighbors, a significant increase from solitary figures in the previous month.
On Monday, a man who killed at least 35 people in a car attack that is thought the be the country’s deadliest attack in a decade was executed.
A person was given the death penalty for the stabbing spree that took place last month at his school and killed eight people.
Additionally, in December, a man who injured 30 people by driving into a crowd of children and parents outside a primary school was handed a suspended death sentence.