China News Service, November 6th. According to the WeChat official account of the “Sichuan Procuratorate”, on November 5, the Sichuan Higher People’s Court in the Panzhihua City Intermediate People’s Court deliberately injured Wang Tao and other four criminal groups involved in drug-related crimes to death. The adult case was publicly pronounced.

　　Feng Jian, chief procurator of the Sichuan Provincial People's Procuratorate and second-level prosecutor, attended the court on behalf of the prosecutors.

Wang Shujiang, president of the Sichuan Higher People's Court and second-level judge, served as the presiding judge.

The scene of the trial.

Picture source: "Sichuan Procurator" WeChat public account

　　"The People's Procuratorate of Sichuan Province proposed that Wang Tao intentionally harmed minors and caused the death of minors. The methods were particularly cruel, the circumstances were particularly bad, and the consequences were particularly serious; Wang Tao was the chief element of a criminal group of evil forces and played a major role in the intentional injury crime. Wang Tao should be severely punished in accordance with the law; although Wang Tao has his relatives on his behalf, it is not enough to give him a lighter punishment; the original sentence for the crime of intentional injury committed by Wang Tao was extremely light, and it is recommended that Wang Tao be sentenced to death immediately. The prosecution opinion is established. , This court accepts it."

　　President Wang Shujiang read out the main content of the judgment. The second-instance judgment fully adopted the opinions of the Procuratorate’s protest and the opinion of Chief Prosecutor Feng Jian’s second-instance appearance. The defendant Wang Tao was sentenced to death immediately, deprived of political rights for life, and all personal property confiscated; the other three were sentenced to death. The defendant was imprisoned from five years to life imprisonment.

After the judgment is pronounced, it shall be submitted to the Supreme Law for approval in accordance with legal procedures.

Brief Introduction

　　In this case, an evil criminal group with Wang Tao as the chief element has been selling drugs and hosting others in Panzhihua City for a long time, and controlled the use of minors An A and An B as criminal tools, forcing them to take drugs, trafficking in drugs, and wantonly take them. The mutilation eventually resulted in the death of a minor and multiple injuries to the entire body of the minor.

The organization sells drugs semi-openly, and has been beating and torturing minors under its control over a long period of time. It has caused psychological panic among community residents, and even dared not report it for fear of retaliation, which has seriously disrupted the order of local social life.

After the verdict was pronounced in the first instance, the People's Procuratorate of Panzhihua City lodged a protest, and Wang Tao and the three defendants lodged an appeal.

　　During the second instance, the Sichuan Provincial People's Procuratorate set up a case-handling team with Chief Prosecutor Feng Jian as the lead prosecutor to investigate and verify the focal issues of the case such as the reason for protest and the reason for appeal.

The case-handling team reviewed a large number of materials involved in the case, supplemented and refined multiple sets of evidence; inspected the scene of the case, reviewed key witnesses and found new clues, carried out surrounding investigations, fixed key witnesses’ testimony, and consolidated the evidence base for supporting the protest in the second instance of the case.

Chief Prosecutor Feng Jian personally witnessed all aspects of case handling-deploying the case handling process, consulting the files, interrogating the defendant, organizing the discussion of the case, listening to the opinions of the defender, and ensuring that the case handling is fair in substance and procedure with a rational, peaceful and rigorous attitude.

　　After review, the Sichuan Provincial People's Procuratorate decided to support the protest.

On August 27, 2020, Prosecutor Feng Jian attended the court of second instance and expressed support for the protest and appearance in court on behalf of the procuratorial organ.

　　As a prosecutor, the chief prosecutor takes the lead in handling major, difficult and complex cases. This is a concrete manifestation of the procuratorial organs' consolidation and deepening of the reform of the judicial accountability system. It has become the new normal in Sichuan Province.

　　The chief prosecutor of the provincial procuratorate handles this criminal group case involving drugs and minors, which has the following functions and significance:

　　The first is to show that it has always maintained a high-pressure situation of cracking down on drug crimes.

General Secretary Xi emphasized that “drug control is related to national security, the rise and fall of the nation, and the well-being of the people. If drugs are not eliminated, the anti-drug struggle cannot be slackened.” Drug crimes seriously endanger people’s lives and social stability. Cause a bad social impact in an area.

The purpose of handling this case is to demonstrate the determination of Sichuan procuratorial organs to fight drug crimes and fight against drugs based on their procuratorial functions.

　　The second is to demonstrate the procuratorial responsibility of resolutely and severely punishing crimes committed by the underworld.

Since 2018, the Sichuan Provincial People's Procuratorate has made the chief prosecutor take the lead in handling major criminal and criminal cases as a rigid requirement. The chief prosecutors of the three-level procuratorates of the province have appeared in court for a total of 200 times.

This year is the closing year of the special campaign against criminals and evil, and the procuratorial organs must fight the "hard battle" of court accusations.

As the chief element of the evil criminal group, Wang Tao must not tolerate connivance, and the procuratorial organ must resolutely shine its sword and eradicate the malignant tumor.

　　The third is to reflect the procuratorial warmth to the judicial protection of minors.

At present, cases of crimes against minors occur frequently, and the people are highly concerned about this.

The two minors in this case were controlled, used and mutilated in the pursuit of huge profits by drug criminals, with a painful ending.

Through the handling of this case, we must warn potential criminals, and do not reach out to minors to do evil. If you reach out, you will be severely punished and severely sentenced for evil.

　　Some representatives of the National People’s Congress, representatives of the Provincial People’s Congress, members of the Provincial Committee of the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference, People’s Supervisors, Secretary of the Political and Legal Committee of Panzhihua Municipal Committee, Deputy Director of the Standing Committee of the Municipal People’s Congress, Deputy Mayor of the Municipal Government, Director of the Public Security Bureau, Vice Chairman of the CPPCC, courts and procuratorates Comrades listened to the verdict.