"Let's get down to business. Tan Jing has already been convicted. Zou Ming told me that she is sentenced to life imprisonment. What do you think?" Xia Wen asked.
"I'm surprised it's not the death sentence," Qiao Mei said in surprise.
Tan Jing was convicted of only the poisoning incidents at Li Gui's restaurant and at Xia Guang's wedding banquet yesterday and of poisoning the entire Huang family.
Qiao Mei's land in the suburbs was hit in a different way from these three incidents. There was no witness or physical evidence, so there was no way to attribute the incident to Tan Jing. As they could not gather enough physical evidence, it was impossible to calculate the amount of pesticides used, so the final known amount did not justify her getting the death sentence.
"It can't be helped. The bar is higher for a death sentence nowadays," Xia Wen said.
