From AP:
A Chinese court sentenced a junk dealer to death Monday for murdering eight people, among them a widow who jilted him and her 2-year-old grandson slain with an ax, state media reported.
The Intermediate People’s Court in the central city of Suizhou ordered Xiong Zhenlin be put to death after a half-day trial, the Xinhua News Agency reported.
Previous Xinhua accounts said that Xiong, a 32-year-old junkyard owner, had confessed to the killings after he was arrested Jan. 11. All death penalties are supposed to be reviewed by the Supreme People’s Court in Beijing before being carried out.
