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China Daily | Updated: 2009-10-28 08:04
Wrong words by wrong person at the wrong time
On the 17th this month, four prisoners cruelly stabbed a police officer to death and escaped from the prison. After three-days' hunting, three of them were arrested by the police, and one was shot dead. A police officer handling the case told the media that "they will be executed soon after the interrogation".
After the Hollywood-movie-like prison break case, the public felt outraged by the brutality of the prison-breakers and sorry for the police officer who had sacrificed his life. But when we talk about the fate facing the jail breakers, the sentence must come through the legal process. Emotion and public opinion cannot replace the function of the judiciary.
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