海洋兄无期了

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http://www2.wsls.com/sls/news/local/new_river_valley/article/life_in_prison_for_haiyang_zhu_in_virginia_tech_murder/94380/

SpectoriaUID: 2488330

已经很幸运了，没有判吃爆米花

SpectoriaUID: 2488330

不过美国好像没有吃爆米花刑:funk::L

hischildUID: 2143480

今早听说了。。。论坛上有人笑谈，他好歹相当于混到张绿卡。。。

AmerigoUID: 2140122

胖了不少，看来吃的不错。。。

SpectoriaUID: 2488330

胖了不少，看来吃的不错。。。
Amerigo 发表于 2010-4-21 10:29

或许是在狱中挨打的结果

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米国有的州也有死刑的，VA好像就有。

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Life in prison for Haiyang Zhu in Virginia Tech murder
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Life in prison for Haiyang Zhu in Virginia Tech murder
By Candice Nelson | WSLS10 Reporter
Published: April 19, 2010
Updated: April 19, 2010
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6:00 p.m.

CHRISTIANSBURG- A judge sentenced a former Virginia Tech student to life in prison after he murdered and beheaded one of his fellow students more than a year ago.

It happened inside a café on Virginia Tech’s campus.

Haiyang Zhu plead guilty back in December for first degree murder of Xin Yang.  On Monday, a judge had to decide his fate.

Three witnesses took the stand including Yang’s mother, a UVA psychologist who already interviewed Zhu, and one of Zhu’s classmates.

According to the psychologist, Zhu’s family had a history of mental illness and put an incredible amount of academic stress on him. The psychologist mentioned one story Zhu told him about how earning a 99% on an assignment wasn’t good enough for his parents.

Zhu was looking for a fresh start and wanted to come to America where he enrolled at Virginia Tech. But once he got there, he struggled and found himself on academic probation- putting him into a depression.

Friends at school called him “Ocean”- the English translation for his name.  Even while he was depressed, a classmate said he was very outgoing and sociable.

The classmate invited Zhu to his wedding, a turning point in all of this when Zhu caught the garter at the reception. Then friends told him that according to tradition, he would be the next one to get married. That sparked an interest.

Later, Zhu met Yang on a Chinese social networking site where she announced she was coming to Virginia Tech. That’s when the pair started talking online.
   
The psychologist explained that Zhu offered Yang to live with him at his apartment while she looked for other places to live. He further explained Zhu didn’t use the opportunity at that time to express he wanted a romantic relationship with her.

Zhu even helped her move into her new room at the Graduate Life Center at Virginia Tech.

Then, Zhu wrote Yang a love letter. Yang rejected him because she was already engaged, and Zhu became angry.

The day before the murder, he called Yang about a dozen times and she never answered. Zhu found her the next day at the café on campus.

Ever since the murder, Zhu has tried to kill himself three times.

He spoke to the judge before he learned his fate.

“Not a single day went by without my conscience being tortured by guilt and my heart aching in pain. I will never forgive myself for what I have done,” Zhu said.

After the judge announced his decision, he called the murder a “cold, calculated, and planned act on a beautiful lady.”

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3:28 p.m.

By MICHAEL FELBERBAUM
Associated Press Writer

    RICHMOND, Va. (AP) - A former Virginia Tech graduate student who prosecutors said decapitated a classmate in a campus cafe because she rejected his romantic advances was sentenced to life in prison on Monday.
    Montgomery County Circuit Judge Robert Turk sentenced Haiyang Zhu to life without parole, said Commonwealth’s Attorney Brad Finch. Zhu pleaded guilty in December to first-degree murder in the death of fellow Chinese student Xin Yang. He admitted decapitating the 22-year-old Yang as the pair had coffee at a campus eatery in January 2009.
    Zhu’s plea did not qualify for the death penalty under Virginia law.
    Finch said he was pleased that the judge imposed the maximum punishment for the “extremely brutal murder.“
    Zhu’s attorney, Stephanie Cox, did not immediately return a phone message seeking comment. But Zhu apologized at the hearing to the victim’s family and the community, Finch said.
    The killing stunned a campus that still had vivid memories of the mass slayings in April 2007, when a student gunman killed 32 people and then took his own life. The stabbing was the first slaying on campus since then.
    Prosecutors had described in detail a heartbroken Zhu who had had fallen in love with Yang, only to be rebuffed when she told him she had a boyfriend she planned to marry.
    At a December plea hearing, Finch cited a letter Zhu wrote while in jail, which said Yang’s rejection “forced him to kill her” because “he loved her too much.“
    Finch also described the attack in detail, noting that Yang suffered numerous defensive wounds to her hands and arms as she tried to fend off Zhu. She eventually fell and he severed her head. He was holding it when police arrived.
    About seven other people who were in the shop at the time told police the two hadn’t been arguing before the attack.
    Corey Cox, a cafe worker in Tech’s Graduate Life Center who witnessed the attack, testified at a preliminary hearing last May that Zhu lunged at Yang and began cutting off her head with a knife. Cox said Zhu did not appear to be angry, but stared at Yang with “just a really blank, determined look.“
    It appeared Yang, who was from Beijing, had only recently met Zhu of Ningbo, China. Zhu, a doctoral student in agricultural and applied economics, had been helping her adjust to life at Tech.

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2:24 p.m.

RICHMOND, Va. (AP) - A former Virginia Tech graduate student who admitted to decapitating a classmate has been sentenced to life in prison.
    Haiyang Zhu was sentenced Monday in Montgomery County Circuit Court to life without parole. He pleaded guilty to first-degree murder in the death of fellow Chinese student Xin Yang.  Zhu attacked and decapitated the 22-year-old Yang as the pair had coffee at a campus eatery in January 2009.
    Commonwealth’s Attorney Brad Finch says Zhu apologized at the hearing to the victim’s family and the community for the attack. Finch says he’s satisfied that the judge imposed the maximum sentence.
    The slaying was the first at the Blacksburg university since a deadly mass shooting there in 2007.


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12:10 p.m.

CHRISTIANSBURG - A Montgomery County judge sentenced former Virginia Tech graduate student Haiyang Zhu to life in prison for the violent murder of fellow graduate student Xin Yang.

At the hearing, a classmate of Zhu’s, Yang’s mother, and a psychologist testified.

According to prosecutors, Zhu wrote a letter in jail saying he killed Yang because she broke his heart.

I’ll have a full report on what happened in the courtroom tonight on WSLS at 6:00 p.m

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不然呢。。。

summer.lawUID: 2792018

據說那個MM很PP哇

summer.lawUID: 2792018

可惜了
both....

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據說那個MM很PP哇
summer.law 发表于 2010-4-21 12:57

网上图不是很多嘛

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據說那個MM很PP哇
summer.law 发表于 2010-4-21 14:57

不是吧。。。

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某种意义上绿卡了。。。

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不是吧。。。
gener 发表于 2010-4-21
14:14

天叔啊我队被你痛击了...
无限沉痛中......