Zhu pled guilty in December and was sentenced to life in April.
Montgomery County Circuit Court Judge Bobby Turk refused Tuesday to reduce the life sentence on former Virgiania Tech graduate student Haiyang Zhu, who received the life sentence at a hearing in April for the Jan. 21, 2009 killing of former Tech graduate student Xin Yang.
Zhu attacked Yang with a knife and decapitated her in the Au Bon Pain in the Graduate Life Center last January.
Zhu’s attorney Stephanie Cox filed a motion last week asking Turk to reduce the life sentence to a 40-year term, after he pleaded guilty to the murder in December.
Turk cited the brutality and the premeditation of the crime as his main reasons for denying the request.
A version of this article appeared in the Jun 17 issue of the Collegiate Times.
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