Justice cannot come late

Reports say deficiencies in the case were found in 2005, after which higher judiciary leaders unambiguously admitted the death sentence was wrong. But a retrial is still to come nine years later. Justice is late. While some might say it's better late than never, we expect it to be punctual next time so that another innocent life won't be lost.

Chongqing Times, Oct 31

Insiders say that almost all the officials who "contributed" to the case were promoted for being "highly efficient"; if a retrial found they wrongly sentenced an innocent person to death, they might receive penalties and that's what makes a retrial so difficult. Are officials' faces and positions more important than a citizen's life? We need to shut power in cage to break such absurd logic.