This isn't as bad as an earlier case where a motorist ran over a
pedestrian in the country side (the pedestrian was still alive),
but the motorist took out a knife to stab her to death. 
Murderer says he has not
decided if he will appeal the court's judgment
XI'AN - Yao Jiaxin, a university
student who stabbed a young mother to death after knocking her down
with his car in a traffic crash in October 2010, was sentenced to
death on Friday by a court in Xi'an, capital of Northwest China's
Shaanxi province.
Yao, 21, a junior at the Xi'an
Conservatory of Music, ran into Zhang Miao while she was riding a
bicycle. Yao was driving a Chevrolet Cruze at the time of the
crash, which occurred at 10:30 pm on Oct 20. Fearing that Zhang
would remember his license plate number and report him to the
police, he stabbed her to death, according to the Intermediate
People's Court of Xi'an.
The court also handed down a life-long
revocation of Yao's political rights and ordered Yao to pay
45,498.50 yuan ($6,983) in compensation to Zhang's family.
After the stabbing, Yao drove away from
the scene and, in his hurry to get away, injured two bystanders. In
an interview with police on Oct 22, he denied he had committed the
murder.
The next day, though, he surrendered
himself to police in the company of his parents and admitted to
being responsible for the killing, the court said.
Yao said he resorted to murder because
he feared the "peasant woman would be hard to deal with".
On the night of her death, Zhang, 26,
the mother of a 2-year-old boy, was returning home from her
temporary job as a cafeteria assistant at the Chang'an campus of
Northwest University.
Police said the crash left her with a
small fracture in her leg and other slight injuries.
Yao, after hitting the victim, did not
try to help her but instead resorted to murder to silence her. That
split-second decision made his crime heinous and eliminated a
possibility that he would receive a lesser punishment, the court
said on Friday.
In China, criminals who turn themselves
in are occasionally granted lesser punishments than those who do
not.
"The motive was extremely
despicable...the conduct was extremely cruel...and the consequences
are extremely serious," the court judgment said.
Yao, when asked if he wants to appeal
the sentence, said he needs time to make such a decision.
Relatives of Yao and Zhang, as well as
hundreds of journalists and students, were present for the
judgment.
http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/china/2011-04/23/content_12380313.htm
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W0FyDlgBp3o
senseless and brainless.
2 lives lost just becaue he didnt want to pay for injury
claims.