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A 23-year-old college student who fatally slit his professor's throat in full view of students during an evening class was given a death sentence suspended for two years by a Beijing court. 
The No1 Intermediate People's Court ruled  that Fu Chengli, a final-year student  at the China University of Political Science and Law, had intended to murder law professor Cheng Chunming, but because he surrendered to police immediately after committing the crime, the sentence should be suspended.
Fu remained calm during the 30-minute hearing and asked the judge why the verdict included only his lawyer's statement in his defence  but not his own, the Guangzhou Daily reported yesterday.  
Fu stabbed the associate professor of comparative jurisprudence last October after discovering that his girlfriend, a graduate student at the university, was having an affair with Cheng. 
The murder was the third attack on an educator in the space of a month and drew the attention of Communist Party leaders in charge of propaganda, Li Changchun and Liu Yunshan  . 
They issued calls for better moral education. 
Lawyer Ding Haiyang asked for leniency for Fu, and submitted to the court 14 documents, including certification of the five scholarships Fu had received, three 'top student' honours and records of his blood donations, the report said. Ding told the newspaper that Fu  had not  requested a lenient sentence.
While in custody last year, Fu told a mainland magazine he had intended to give every teacher a lesson in morals by murdering Cheng, and that he did not regret slitting the professor's throat with a kitchen knife. 
'As a professor, he should be a role model for us. But what he did was immoral and totally out of line,' Fu was quoted as saying by China Newsweek. 'Killing him can serve as a warning to 100 potential campus predators ... I am guilty of my crime, but I have no regret for that.'



Suspended death sentence for professor's murderer