A kindergarten teacher has been executed this Thursday after being sentenced to death for having poisoned children four years ago. The teacher bought sodium nitrite over the Internet to take revenge on her husband and later used the sodium salt in the nursery after a dispute with a co-worker, various state media reported on Friday.
On March 27, 2019, he added sodium nitrite to the rice porridge consumed by the minors, resulting in the poisoning of 25 of the children and the death of one of them ten months later after multiple organ failure.
The woman appealed the sentence, but the Henan Province High Court rejected the appeal and upheld the death sentence. The case of this teacher, identified as Wang Yun, is just one of several deaths or violence in Chinese kindergartens in recent years.
In recent years, nurseries and schools in the Asian country have been in the news due to an incessant drip of violence and deaths. Just four days ago a man attacked several children in a nursery with a knife, killing six of them.
In 2021, an attack with a knife at a kindergarten in Beiliu left two minors dead and 16 injured. In 2020, another man stabbed several workers and students in a school, leaving a total of 40 injured. These are just some of the most notorious cases in recent years. However, the list is long.
The case of the poisoning of several children by the teacher executed on Thursday received a lot of media attention in its day and finally her death makes the woman join a long list of people who are sentenced to death in the Asian country.
The Chinese authorities do not provide official data on the number of those sentenced to death, but in its 2022 annual report, the human rights organization Amnesty International noted that "thousands of executions are believed to have been carried out" in the country. .
The most widely used methods of execution are beheading, hanging, injecting toxic substances and shooting with a firearm. Although it is true that this practice is less and less common worldwide, there are still countries where it is not prohibited. China is at the top of the list of countries with the most death penalty executions in the world, although the country lists the figures as "state secrets".
