Controversial case of Wang Shujin re-opened in Handan (2/7)

Wang Shujin, a man who has confessed to crimes for which another man has already been executed, is on trial at the Handan Intermediate People's Court in Handan City, north China's Hebei Province, July 10, 2013. The trial of Wang re-opened here on Wednesday. Nie Shubin was executed in 1995 at the age of 21 for the 1994 rape and murder of a woman in the provincial capital of Shijiazhuang. After Wang was apprehended by police in 2005 for three separate rape and murder cases, he confessed to also having raped and murdered the woman in Shijiazhuang.(Xinhua/Ding Lixin)