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Year-end Review: Fudan Poisoning Case


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Two promising students, a poisoning, and two irreversible deaths: a seemingly normal criminal case has drawn so much attention that it has left every one of us shivering and reflecting on what happened.Lin Senhao, a medical student at the prestigious Fudan University in Shanghai, dropped a deadly chemical into a water dispenser in the dormitory, which poisoned his roommate, Huang Yang.Lin was sentenced to the death penalty for intentional homicide. Despite a petition letter from his fellow schoolmates calling for leniency, the Supreme People's Court made the final verdict, upholding Lin's death sentence.So was the death sentence too harsh? What's the implication of this case on the criminal code reform?First, PIK talked with Guo Jing, Associate Professor, College for Criminal Law Science, Beijing Normal University.After the tragedy, people have been questioning the place of ethics in our education system. What is missing?For more on this, PIK talked with Gregory Yinnien Tsang, Current affairs commentator.
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