Chinese Court Sentences US Citizen To Death For Murder

A Chinese court has sentenced US citizen Abdulmateen Shadeed to death on Thursday for intentional homicide of a 21 year old woman, who's his former girlfriend, state broadcaster CCTV reported. In its verdict, the Ningbo Intermediate People’s Court in Zhejiang Province found that after a disagreement over the pair’s break-up in June

2019 the defendant arranged to meet and talk with the victim, a Chinese woman surnamed Chen, at a bus stop in Ningbo before killing her with a folding knife.The court held that the defendant’s premeditated revenge killing, stabbing and cutting Chen’s face and neck several times, resulting in Chen’s death, was motivated by vile motives,

resolute intent and cruel means, and the circumstances of the crime were particularly bad and the consequences particularly serious, and should be punished according to law. An official with the U.S. State Department said it was monitoring the matter but would not comment further due to privacy considerations.