I mean, really this is remarkable considering they have a population of 1 billion. I am surprised there weren't more attacks. Time for them to ban knives too? Thought only guns were supposed to kill people. Gotta admire that quick death sentence too. No years long death row.
BEIJING - A Chinese court sentenced a man to death Saturday for an attack on a school that wounded 29 children and 3 teachers last month.
The attack was one of five major assaults against schoolchildren in the last two months that have left 17 dead and more than 50 hurt. China has ordered tighter security at schools following another attack Wednesday, the deadliest so far. In that rampage, a man broke into a preschool with a cleaver and killed 7 children and 2 adults. The man was reportedly depressed and suicidal.
The attacks have focused attention on the consequences of ignoring mental illness in modern China, as huge economic inequalities have stoked social tension. Experts say China has failed to adequately address the mental health needs of its citizens. Last year, a study in the British medical journal The Lancet showed that 173 million Chinese, or 17.5% of the population have some form of mental problems. The vast majority -about 158 million- have never received any kind of help.
At leastthree of the recent attackers had a history of mental health problems. Two committed suicide after carrying out the attacks.
The man convicted for the first of the five school attacks, Zheng Minsheng, has been executed already. Zheng killed 8 children in the southern province of Fujian on March 23.
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