Sichuan Woman Butchers Abusive Husband, Granted Deferred Execution

Sichuan Woman Butchers Abusive Husband, Granted Deferred Execution
Apr 24, 2015 By eChinacities.com

On April 24, a Sichuan woman was granted a deferred execution by the Ziyang city court. The woman, Li Yan, had been found guilty of brutally butchering her husband, Tan. The case was reopened because Li Yan reported that Tan had repeatedly beaten her. The court upheld granted her a stay of execution, meaning that her execution will be deferred for two years and will most likely be changed to a life sentence.

Li Yan killed her husband on November 3, 2010 in Anyue, Sichuan. After an argument, Li Yan beat her husband in the head with the barrel of a gun, giving him a head injury. She then butchered him by cutting his body into pieces. On the mornings of November 4 and 5, she disposed of his body parts in the river and in the toilet. Li Yan had often been beaten by her husband and had previously reported him to the local Women's Federation and local police several times.

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ryzerie123

The woman might have suffered terribly. Just look at the way she murdered her husband, butchering. On the other side, I was wondering where the gun came from. I thought guns are prohibited in China. Also, Chinese women attack strangers who try to defend them from their husband's beating? What kind of thinking is that? I really don't get them.

May 02, 2015 08:32 Report Abuse

The-Final-Say

Sadly, I have witnessed spousal abuse in China, first hand. One time I was in a little mom and pop restuarant near a public school and saw a man throwing a beatdown on his woman, just down the steps from the entrance. I chugged my beer and was about to use the bottle to straighten this guy out when the boss, a friend of mine, stopped me and told me that were I to do this that perhaps his wife would beat me out of embarassment. I was shocked. I was later told by locals that wives often get beaten but if strangers get involved, the wives will attack them because of losing of face. So now we come to this story. Cops will do nothing, Women's group did nothing. She couldn't rely much on her home for support because, as GeoHistTeacher so well put it, no support there as well dues to losing of face. She had no protection and her life was in shambles, she wanted to defend herself and as a result she put the husband out of the game. It is a terrible thing but this is the result of 5000 years of society not learning to covet and treasure the fairer half in the way they should be. I feel sorry for her.... and her husband in a strange way. But I really feel sorry for her.

Apr 28, 2015 18:56 Report Abuse

coineineagh

Nope. No sympathy for (likely premeditated) murder and cover-up. I'm tired of Chinese gaming the sympathy card, and this one is a fairly deliberate play on emotion. It's not our place to make excuses for bad behaviour, and citing 'cultural differences' has been done to death. Literally.

Apr 30, 2015 18:28 Report Abuse

coineineagh

Can't judge when I know so little about the situation. But murder seems an excessive countermeasure to household abouse. She hadn't considered running away?

Apr 25, 2015 17:58 Report Abuse

coineineagh

By all means, enlighten me. Can you explain why being abused excuses murder? Anywhere else seems to be better than her hometown, but she refused to be a lone female waidiren, and preferred to kill her man and play victim. Shenanigans. Am I the only one who doesn't see this is no poor innocent victim?

Apr 30, 2015 18:24 Report Abuse

sorrel

She reported her husband's abuse to the police AND the local Women's Federation and they did nothing. That sounds like China alright. But i suppose because she was 'exposing family ugliness' was the reason she was left to suffer.

Apr 25, 2015 17:14 Report Abuse

indalkar

"She then butchered him by cutting his body into pieces." I didn't know if Chinese women were capable of something like that. Anyways abuse has to end somehow...

Apr 25, 2015 11:07 Report Abuse

The-Final-Say

They don't have "Waste Management" Crews in China like in other places and Sichuan is home to the "lovely panda", not crocs, gators, and sharks. Difficult to get rid of the evidence.

Apr 28, 2015 18:59 Report Abuse

Guest14196476

Panda is in the cage,so are we. I don't know what our servants really do except that try to satisfy themselves and their boss.

Apr 29, 2015 22:17 Report Abuse

kuntmans

Thank god they got to take a picture. Who knows what injustice might have been served up otherwise

Apr 25, 2015 01:11 Report Abuse

The-Final-Say

Yes, echinacities is good at getting the scoop and having photos. It does make me wonder though, how does this website get their cameras at the scene of the crime so easily?

Apr 28, 2015 19:02 Report Abuse