Wrong for people to praise killings

A MAN SURRENDERED HIMSELF to local police in Hanzhong, Northwest China's Shaanxi province, last week, two days after stabbing to death three male members of a neighboring family. Beijing News comments:

The man, Zhang Koukou, allegedly stabbed the men to take revenge for his mother, who died on the way to hospital after a scuffle between members of the two families in 1996. The neighbors had been quarreling over land for construction, and Zhang, who was 13 at the time, witnessed his mother's death.

Many netizens have praised Zhang, calling him a chivalrous hero because he took lives of his mother's "killers", and spared the lives of others in the Wang family.