1. Family Letter of Understanding
A letter of understanding is a lifeline for prisoners in general cases, because it will lead to a reduced sentence. Let's just say that if a case has a letter of understanding, there is a 99% chance that the case will not be sentenced to death. Because the law in our country is to try not to kill. However, in this case, the Sichuan Higher People's Court did not recognize the letter of understanding produced by the family, because the family of the victim was the daughter of the murderer Zhang Zhijun, and the letter of understanding produced certainly failed to meet the requirements, so the court did not recognize the letter of understanding.
2. Does the victim have excessive behavior?
This is legally called intensification of contradictions, that is to say, whether the victim has done anything particularly radical, which has caused the prisoner's pain. According to the police investigating the case, the victim in this case did not act aggressively. The victim just pulled the hair of the prisoner Zhang Zhijun's daughter, and there was no other behavior. Therefore, the court held that there was no problem of intensification of contradictions in this case. Here, the death penalty is basically powerless, but it is still a foot away.
3. Is there an obvious motive for killing?
This is the last leg, the last leg of the court's death sentence. Because Zhang Zhijun had obvious motive to kill, according to the forensic investigation afterwards, Zhang Zhijun's attack on the victim was fatal, and every blow was fatal. Although Zhang Zhijun's defender argued that someone called 120 to save people in Zhang Zhijun afterwards, the court held that this had nothing to do with the motive of killing. Because in the court's view, Zhang Zhijun's defender's statement is similar to? Kill someone and say you're sorry? Something like that.
Generally speaking, this sentence is the death penalty, which is what netizens want to see most, and it is also the judgment of the High Court, which is basically the final judgment.