Both the procuratorate and the court of Mianyang city...

Both the procuratorate and the court of Mianyang city were ordered each to pay 53,528.90 yuan on compensation to Cheng Ning for a wrong death sentence. Cheng, now 40, an employer at Pingwu County branch of the Agriculture Bank of China in Mianyang city of southwest China's Sichuan Province, was mistakenly arrested and sentenced to death according to a Mianyang city Intermediate People's Court verdict in 1991 for bank robbery. He had been in jail for 3,257 days before he was released in April, 1999, at the order of the Provincial Higher People's Court for lacking sufficient evidence. In July 2000, Cheng appealed to the procuratorate and the intermediate court of Mianyang city, demanding compensation of 900,000 yuan for his economic losses and spiritual damages. In July 2000, Cheng appealed to the procuratorate and the intermediate court of Mianyang city, demanding compensation of 900,000 yuan for his economic losses and spiritual damages.