December 30, 1955, was a day to never forget. On this day, he was convicted of a capital offense and escorted to the execution ground for execution. The prosecutor found that something was wrong during the escort and promptly informed the superiors to "leave people under the knife", and finally avoided the occurrence of an unjust case.
Early in the morning of the 30th, it was just dark. Prosecutor Liu Mingzhi, bailiff Yang Chengqi, and others escorted An Lesan to Zhangying Village, 20 kilometers away from Jiaoxian County, where a public trial meeting was held, and after pronouncing the verdict of the crime, they were shot on the spot. At this time, Anle San did not know to eat "peanut rice", and his attitude along the way was very cooperative.
When the group walked to dajuge village, it was already close to noon, and the crowd of people watching the lively melon eating also increased. In order to prevent accidents, two bailiffs leaned forward and tightened the grip on the prisoner. At this time, An Lesan suddenly realized that he was about to be executed, and immediately collapsed on the ground, and the bailiff had to drag him forward with a drag.
Before he had gone far, an old man came to him, and An Lesan fixed his eyes on it, and suddenly fell to his knees, crying: "Old uncle, I am Lesan, and my death is really unjust!" After I leave, you old man must not forget to let my son file a grievance for me! After saying that, he lay on the ground and hugged his headache and cried.
Liu Zhizhi had seen this situation a lot, and at first he didn't take it seriously, who knew that when he ate at noon, Anle didn't drop three drops of water, or shouted injustice vigorously, saying that he had not committed murder. At this time, Liu Zhiming's heart was a little confused, was there really a grievance in the case?
After eating lunch, the group continued to hurry, and when they arrived at Zhangying Village immediately, Anle San saw that the time of death was approaching, desperately broke free of the hands of the bailiff, threw himself on his knees, and cried out to the heavens: "Lord, you manifest your spirit, I really did not kill anyone, I died too unjustly!" ”
Liu Mingzhi has handled many cases and supervised many death penalties, and he has carefully examined each case with the attitude of being responsible to the people. But this time, Anle San's abnormal performance surprised him, was there really a problem in it? This is going to go wrong, but it is a big matter of human life!
As a judge, he would never let go of a bad person, but he would never wrongfully accuse a good person. Since the leader has arranged for me to supervise the implementation, it is my responsibility to take care of this last hurdle. Liu Mingzhi thought about it and finally made up his mind: go to Zhangying Village and study the case with President Wang of the County Court Circuit Court before dealing with it.
On this day, just in time for the zhangying village market, there were many villagers who had rushed to the market, and I heard that there was a public trial meeting, and there were more people watching the liveliness. In order to prevent accidents, Liu Mingzhi consulted with the village cadres and temporarily detained An Lesan in Xiaozhaojiazhuang next door. Everything was properly arranged, and he immediately went to President Wang Honghai and introduced the situation he had encountered today. When President Wang heard about this, he also felt strange, so the two of them found the case file to re-examine.
An Lesan, a native of Caobo Township, Jiaoxian County (now Jiaozhou), Shandong, set up a stall in Qingdao to make a living selling vegetables when he was young. During the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, he returned from Qingdao to his hometown in Jiaoxian County, and on the way he was arrested by the puppet army and became a traitor, and he also served as a pseudo-deputy security chief, and indeed did a lot of bad things. After the devil surrendered, in order to avoid the trial of the people's government, he ran to Qingdao (Guotong District) to resume his old business.
In June 1949, Qingdao was liberated. This boy was so bold and fat that he pretended to be the People's Liberation Army to blackmail the common people, and as a result, he was arrested and sentenced to 10 months in prison. During his sentence, he behaved "very well", so he was released early, who knew that he had just been released from prison. Soon after, he was sentenced to one year and two months in prison for theft.
After his release from prison in 1951, An Lesan finally repented and rehabilitated, burning bricks and drying dung for a living, and although his life was a little bitter, at least he did not have to hide in Tibet. Unexpectedly, the masses of the people still remember his "great achievements" in that year, and a whistle-blowing letter put him in deep prison.
In 1954, An Lesan was arrested and imprisoned again, and the county public security bureau found him guilty of the following main crimes: First, from 1941 to 1942, in collusion with bandits Liu Yunzi and others, he snatched away a donkey and three cattle from the masses; second, in 1944, he instructed his subordinates to beat the pregnant woman An Xushi, causing her to be overly frightened and died of a stroke; third, in 1945, he colluded with others to beat pregnant women in the same village, resulting in the death of the latter.
In March 1955, Ann Lesan was sentenced to death by the procuratorate for counterrevolutionary homicide.
Liu Mingzhi turned over the case file and found no problems, so he suggested that the prisoner An Lesan be retried, and President Wang agreed.
That night, the prisoners were taken to the brigade office for interrogation overnight. An Lesan did not know the situation, and thought that he was going to execute the shooting, and he cried out in despair. Liu Zhizhi shouted, "An Le San, don't cry anymore!" I now declare to you that, according to your crimes, you will be executed tomorrow, and you are not crying out your grievances, and you will tell your grievances now! ”
When An Le Sanyi heard this, he immediately got up from the ground and explained the reason to the interrogators. It turned out that Anle San had indeed done bad things when he was a puppet army, but he had never hurt anyone or robbed anyone's cattle. After liberation, the people who had festivals with him, in order to get revenge, pushed all the murders of the people in the village on his head.
The chief of the public security unit who interrogated him also hated the puppet army, repeatedly extorted confessions and induced confessions, An Lesan could not stand it, only wanted to confess leniency, let the government be lenient, and enter the labor camp for a few years to serve a sentence and come out, who knew that he was sentenced to death. But he drew the confession in black and white, and it was too late to cry out for injustice.
Immediately afterward, Liu Zhiming found a big problem, in the file on the Anle Sanyi case, there was no indictment and judgment, only a form of approval, so hastily sentenced to the death penalty of Anle San, which obviously did not conform to the procedure. The new information provided by prisoners therefore warrants a re-examination.
Therefore, the two decided to suspend the execution and immediately reported the situation to their superiors. The superiors attached great importance to this problem and quickly issued instructions: If there is a reaction, there must be a rectification, and if there is a mistake, it must be corrected, and since it is found that there is a problem, it will be re-examined and then dealt with.
The sudden change in the case caused quite a stir in the small Jiao County, and the masses who were waiting to see the liveliness were also talking about it, some said, "The people's government is still good, it will never wrongfully accuse a good person, this matter must be shelved before, maybe it will have been killed a long time ago", and some said "The an family is either on top of someone, or it is spending money to buy life..."
In order to fair the law and safeguard the dignity of the law, the three departments of public security, procuratorate and law each sent a three-person team to retry the case. After multiple investigations and evidence collection, it was finally proved that Anle SAN had nothing to do with the murder case, and the death sentence was revoked and changed to "education release".
An Lesan walked before the ghost door closed, did not expect to be able to come back alive, after being released, he carefully selected a pick of eggs from home, thanked the "Qingtian Grand Master" of the procuratorate, and no one was willing to accept it. Liu Zhizhi educated him, "Our handling of you is based on facts, based on the law, you should be released if you are not guilty, and you don't need to thank anyone..." An Lesan had no choice but to carry the egg back home.
Although 65 years have passed since this case, as the first "unjust case of rehabilitation in supervising the execution of the death penalty" in New China, it still has a warning effect to this day. Only by being responsible for the law can we be responsible for the people, and the conscientious and responsible attitude of Law enforcement personnel such as Li Mingming is still worthy of study by political and legal personnel throughout the country.