"This court hereby pronounces that the defendant Guan Libing is guilty of homicide and is sentenced to death, with a two-year reprieve of execution,"
The highly publicized case of a vendor stabbing a city urban administrative and law enforcement officer concluded with the strike of a gavel.
A suspended death sentence.
Although it's nominally a death sentence, it's essentially different from an immediate execution.
As long as no intentional crimes are committed during the reprieve period, the death sentence will automatically be commuted to life imprisonment.
In other words, Li Bing narrowly escaped death.
Of course.
If it weren't for Fang Qing's last, stirring and reflective closing statement, Li Bing would likely not have been able to escape his fate.