Hands Off Cain
CHINA·DEATH PENALTY·APRIL 1, 1999·1 MIN READ

In April, a court sentenced restaurant owner Chi Jianguo...

In April, a court sentenced restaurant owner Chi Jianguo to death for poisoning the donkey soup at a nearby rival's eatery and making 148 people ill

In April, a court sentenced restaurant owner Chi Jianguo to death for poisoning the donkey soup at a nearby rival's eatery and making 148 people ill. The death sentence was suspended for 2 years. It said owner Chi Jianguo and employee Zhang Zhanguo, jealous of the good business the competitor enjoyed, hired Wang Chunli and 3 other farmers to throw poison into the pots as the donkey soup cooked.