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(Scroll down for video) A car thief in China was sentenced to death after he killed an innocent baby during a car heist.
A family was left devastated after their baby was kidnapped along with their stolen car.
Zhou Xijun, 48, stole a 4x4 jeep in Jilin Province, in northern China. At first, he did not realize that there was a baby inside the car, but when the two-month-old Xu Haob did not stop crying Zhou killed the baby. The baby’s father had left the car running with the baby inside as he ran into his shop for a moment, according to reports. The baby was strapped inside the car when Xijun jumped into the car and drove off.
When the father realized that his car and baby were gone he called police, who set up a major manhunt. Police found the car abandoned in front of a school 40 kilometers outside of the city, but there was no trace of the baby.
The next day Xijun turned himself in and confessed to killing the baby after he wouldn't stop crying. "I stopped the car, strangled the baby and buried his body in the snow," Xijun told police. Thousands of people called for the death penalty for Xijun, who viciously killed an innocent baby.
“People are pleased with the sentence. A person who is capable of killing and discarding a newborn baby so he can flee with a stolen car, is a danger to society,” Jim Yong, of Beijing, China told YourJewishNews.com after the verdict was announced.
All death penalty verdicts in China are reviewed by the Supreme Court. “China executes about 4,000 people every year, which is a 50 percent drop from 2007,” U.S. human rights group Duihua Foundation said.
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