A court in central China said on Friday a Chinese kindergarten teacher who poisoned 25 of her students, killing one, has been executed.
China is believed to execute more prisoners each year than the rest of the world combined, although the actual figure is a state secret.
Wang, 40, was convicted of putting toxic sodium nitrite in porridge served to children at Mengmeng Pre-school Education on March 27, 2019, following an argument with a colleague identified only by the surname Sun over “student management.” While other students recovered fairly quickly, one student, identified only by the surname Wang, died from multiple organ failure after 10 months of treatment, the notice said.
While Wang's motivation was presented as revenge, it wasn't clear if she had intended to kill or merely sicken her husband and the students. She was initially convicted to nine months in prison for deliberate harm, but the sentence was later converted to death. Wang's appeal was rejected by the court and she was taken to an execution ground and put to death.
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