On Oct 28 last year, 43-year-old Professor Cheng Chunming was killed by Fu Chengli, a 23-year-old student at the university. Fu suspected his girlfriend, a postgraduate student surnamed Chen, had broken up with him because she was in a relationship with Cheng. Chen was applying for Cheng's PhD program. Fu was sentenced to death with a two-year probation at the Beijing No. 1 Intermediate Court on Wednesday.
The wife of Cheng Chunming at the China University of Political Science and Law who was stabbed to death by a student, said she will not ask for compensation and does not hate the murderer.
Han Yang, 32, is a teacher at Beijing International Studies University. Ding Haiyang, the lawyer of Fu, quoted Han as saying about the murderer: "Because of his impulsive action, he really hurt my family and myself. But I don't hate Fu at all. He's still a child."
Han declined an interview when METRO attempted to contact her, but Fu's lawyer Ding , who met her, said she had decided to give up the civil compensation.
"Fu's family condition isn't very good and his parents in Tianjin are both ordinary workers. The tragedy almost destroyed their family and I won't add any more burden to them," Ding quoted Han as saying.
Usually for this kind of case in China, family members of victims ask for severe punishments to be handed out.
But Ding reported Han made no such requirements.
Han was quoted as saying: "We are quite good and we want to end this matter and start a new life. I just want to bring up my child, and I don't want to waste any more energy on this case."
According to Han's mother, when Cheng was stabbed to death, Han was five months pregnant. The mother believed extreme distress caused abnormal fetal development in Han's unborn child, provoking problems with its heart, liver and spleen since his birth in March.
Ding said Fu is still considering whether or not to appeal to the city's higher court. The final decision will be made Friday.