A court in China’s southwestern Yunnan province sentenced a man to death for killing his parents and 17 other people in a spat last year over money, state
BEIJING – A court in China’s southwestern Yunnan province sentenced a man to death for killing his parents and 17 other people in a spat last year over money, state media said on Friday.
The China News Service said Yang Qingpei killed his parents in their Yunnan village last September after being scolded by his father when he demanded to borrow money to pay debts.
In an attempt to cover his tracks when fleeing the scene, Yang killed 17 of his neighbors. He was arrested the next day in the provincial capital Kunming for the mass murder of people from six families.
The “circumstances were especially vile, the means cruel, and the consequences extremely grave, ” the intermediate court in Yunnan’s Qujing city said, according to the China News Service.
