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Ex-student appeals death sentence

LAWYERS for a former Fudan University medical student who is on death row for poisoning his roommate appealed to the Supreme People’s Court to commute his sentence.

Si Weijiang, one of Lin Senhao’s lawyers, said the collegial panel of three judges heard their case on Tuesday, Beijing Times reported yesterday.

Lin was sentenced to death for poisoning the water cooler he shared with fellow student Huang Yang.

Si argued the quantity of nitrosodimethylamine that Huang ingested wasn’t enough to prove fatal, that experts testified Huang may have died of hepatitis B, that he had only intended to hurt his roommmate, not kill him, and that there were procedural problems in the trial, according to the report.

Lin was also questioned by the supreme court judges, Si told the newspaper.

The panel said it would make its ruling later.

Lin, 28, put a toxic chemical taken from a university lab in a water dispenser in his dormitory on March 31, 2013.

His roommate Huang became ill after drinking the water from the dispenser the next day and later died of organ failure.




 

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