Killing Shantou Monitoring Team is a crime of intentional homicide, which means intentionally and illegally depriving others of their lives. It belongs to the crime of infringing citizens' personal democratic rights. It is one of the few crimes with the worst nature in our criminal law.

Article 232 of China's criminal law stipulates that the crime of intentional homicide shall be sentenced to death, life imprisonment or fixed-term imprisonment of more than ten years; If the circumstances are relatively minor, they shall be sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment of not less than three years but not more than ten years.