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Death penalty ordered for mass killing at care home in Japan

by Associated Press
| March 15, 2020 11:05 PM

TOKYO (AP) — A Japanese court Monday sentenced a former care home employee to hang for knifing to death 19 disabled people and injuring others four years ago in the deadliest mass attack in postwar Japan.

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