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Man sentenced to death for killing 8 people

A man who was convicted of killing eight people including a two-year-old boy was sentenced to death today in central China's Hubei Province. The Intermediate People's Court of Suizhou also deprived Xiong Zhenlin,... ...full story at Shanghai Daily

from Shanghai Daily on Mon, Feb 09 2009

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