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Jailed 'Killer' Freed After Wife Turns Up Alive
by IconoclasT at 10:28 pm EDT, Apr 5, 2005

BEIJING (Reuters) - A Chinese man jailed and badly beaten for his wife's murder has been freed after she turned up not only alive but with another husband, domestic media said on Monday, revealing a brutal arbitrariness to China's legal system.
She Xianglin's wife, Zhang Zaiyu, disappeared after a domestic dispute in 1994 and when a woman's body was found in a local reservoir, She was detained on suspicion of killing his wife, the China Daily said.
The body was so decomposed it could not be identified, but a local court found She, a former part-time police officer from central Hubei province, guilty of murder and sentenced him to death.

A provincial court later commuted the sentence to 15 years in prison.

So the question is... If you've already done the time, can you still do the crime? I seem to remember an Ashley Judd/Tommy Lee Jones movie that had a similar theme.

Jailed 'Killer' Freed After Wife Turns Up Alive
by k at 2:31 pm EDT, Apr 6, 2005

A provincial court later commuted the sentence to 15 years in prison.

[ God that's lame. It goes without saying that I'd be raging pissed. -k]