"That night, when they entered the house, why didn't you stop them and call the police?" The female prosecutor was sympathetic to Shi Yalan in her heart.

"Do you know what it feels like to see a woman in the same bed as her man and another woman in her own home that night?" Shi Yalan didn't answer and asked.

When she looked at the female prosecutor, she was surprisingly calm, her eyes were as calm as water when she spoke, and there were no waves in the ancient well, which made people feel inexplicably frightened.

The male prosecutor next to the female prosecutor was about to interrupt Yalan's speech, but was stopped by the female prosecutor, who did not speak.

"I'm telling you, it's a disappointment, a complete disappointment, and the family relationship that I tried so hard to maintain collapsed...... With no hope in sight, what else can a woman who can't see any hope do? Shi Yalan's voice raised an octave at this time.

Shi Yalan did not have a seizure as the presiding judge imagined, but gradually quieted down again.

How many people can restrain their emotions and let their emotions return to normal little by little when they are extremely angry?!

This is Shi Yalan's transformation, even Shi Rong, who was sitting in the auditorium, felt a little strange to the daughter who had been raised by himself for more than 20 years in the dock, and the current daughter is no longer the weak girl before, but has become a stranger, maybe the daughter has really grown up.

"What did you do after killing them?" Female prosecutors continue to carry out their duties.

"I threw them in the vegetable cellar in the courtyard, and the next day I got gasoline to burn their bodies, and then someone called the police." Shi Yalan said lightly.

"Presiding Judge, I'm done." The female prosecutor stopped asking questions.

"The appellant Shi Yalan's defender asked." The presiding judge looked at Fang Yi.

"Appellant, what is your relationship with your husband, the victim Qi Qingshan?" Fang Yi asked.

"Not good." Shi Yalan replied.

"To what extent?" Fang Yi asked.

"She used to beat and scold me and burn me with cigarette butts." As he spoke, Shi Yalan rolled up his sleeves and raised his arm high: "He burned five places on this arm with a cigarette butt." ”

After speaking, Shi Yalan changed another arm: "This arm was burned eight places by him with a cigarette butt." I also have burns on my body, and I can only wear long sleeves in the summer, I am afraid that people will see it, I am afraid of being laughed at. ”

After speaking, Shi Yalan turned his head sideways: "The scar on my ear was beaten by him with a belt." I have more than 30 scars on my body, and many of them have grown and I can't see them.

The most serious one, I was beaten by him and hospitalized for more than half a month, my parents called us to ask my husband and wife to go back to dinner, I could only tell them that I was on a business trip and was not in the city......"

At this time, Shi Yalan closed her eyes, and tears crossed her face: "I endured it, and I also called the police, but in the end, I ...... some things can only rely on myself, and I really can only rely on myself." ”

There was silence in the courtroom.

"Presiding judge, the defender has finished asking." Fang Yi said.

After listening to Shi Yalan's words, Fang Yi felt that the goal had been achieved.

It is one thing to read the report, and it is another thing to listen to the appellant's own words in court, and the feeling is completely different, and the anger at the scene can raise the public's sympathy for the appellant to the extreme. Let everyone understand that although the appellant was wrong to kill, the victim was also extremely at fault, as the so-called slap does not make a sound.

"Do the prosecutors, defenders, and appellants have any new evidence to submit?" After a moment, the presiding judge asked.

"Nope." Tripartite equalization.

……

"The court investigation is over, and now the court argument is open.

Before the debate, the court draws the attention of the prosecution and the defense to the fact that the debate should mainly focus on the determination of the charge, sentencing and other controversial issues. The appellant is invited to take the floor. The presiding judge looked at Shi Yalan.

"Presiding Judge and Judge: I have been suffering from abuse and beatings for a long time, and I have been patient, and I have accumulated too many grievances in my heart.

On the night of the crime, because of my cowardice and fear of my husband, I tolerated it, but my husband and the victim Jian Lanlan had to take an inch and openly kicked me out of the back room where I slept at home, and they slept together in front of me.

I could no longer suppress the anger in my heart, so I killed two people in a row, and ...... begged the court to give me a lenient punishment. Shi Yalan's calm eyes were filled with tears, and she read the defense opinions in her hand.

The defense opinions were compiled by herself based on what Fang Yi said when he met her last time.

"I will now speak by the appellant Shi Yalan's defender." The presiding judge looked at Fang Yi.

"Presiding Judge and Judge: The defender believes that although the appellant Shi Yalan killed two people in a row, which constituted the crime of intentional homicide, the victim was seriously at fault, and the appellant's murder was caused by the anger of the two defendants, and the appellant should not be sentenced to death. The specific reasons are as follows:

Article 48, paragraph 1, of the Penal Code stipulates that the death penalty shall be applied only to criminals who have committed extremely serious crimes. Criminals who should be sentenced to death may be sentenced to death with a two-year reprieve, if it is not necessary to carry out the sentence immediately.

In addition, in October 1999, the Supreme People's Court issued the "Minutes of the National Symposium on the Work of Courts in Criminal Trials to Maintain Rural Stability."

The minutes state that 'it is necessary to accurately grasp the criteria for the application of the death penalty for the crime of intentional homicide. Whether or not to impose the death penalty for the crime of intentional homicide should not only look at whether the consequences of the victim's death were caused, but also comprehensively consider all the circumstances of the case.

The application of the death penalty to crimes of intentional homicide caused by the intensification of civil conflicts such as marriage, family, and neighborhood disputes must be extremely cautious, and should be distinguished from other cases of intentional homicide that occur in society that seriously endanger public order.

Where the victim's side is clearly at fault or bears direct responsibility for the intensification of the conflict, or where the defendant has legally-prescribed mitigating circumstances, the death penalty shall generally not be sentenced for immediate execution. ’

In this case, the victim, Qi Qingshan, had often beaten and abused the appellant Shi Yalan for no reason. According to the facts ascertained by the court of first instance, Qi Qingshan often used cigarette butts to burn the appellant, and repeatedly pressed Shi Yalan to the ground and beat him over trivial family matters, and in the most serious case, Qi Qingshan broke Shi Yalan's ribs for no reason and was hospitalized for more than 10 days.

At the same time, Qi Qingshan, as a married man, often takes the opportunity to take photos to fool around with some young women in society and have improper X relationships.

Qi Qingshan's appeal seriously violated the legitimate rights and interests of the appellant Shi Yalan, and also caused Shi Yalan's physical and mental harm, and at the same time planted resentment in Shi Yalan's heart. ”

In the courtroom, everyone listened quietly.

(End of chapter)