China has sentenced to death a contract killer known...

China has sentenced to death a contract killer known as Hitman number one who murdered nine people, including a friend whose head and hands he boiled after cutting up the body, Xinhua news agency said. Businessmen reportedly hired Tu Guiwu, 37, to eliminate competitors in and around the southwestern city of Chengdu. In 1998, he stabbed to death a friend who had failed to repay a loan. Then he chopped the body into pieces with a saw and cleaver and boiled the head and hands.
Tu said he had felt unsettled after the killings. "However, watching TV and playing computer games helped me calm down," he was quoted as saying. Of his victims, he said, "They are just like me. We all are uncivilised primitives."
Tu was arrested when police stormed his room in May 2003. He did not put up a fight.