CHINESE COURT UPHOLDS DEATH PENALTY FOR POLICE KILLER

in China, a Shanghai court upheld the death penalty for Yang Jia, a jobless Beijing man who stormed into a Shanghai police bureau earlier this year and killed six officers. After the final trial of Yang's case, the Shanghai Higher People's Court turned down his appeal against the death sentence handed down earlier by a local court, according to the final verdict the court announced. The Shanghai court's death sentence verdict needs to be ratified by the Supreme People's Court in Beijing. Yang, 28, was sentenced to death on Sept. 1 in the first trial at the Shanghai No. 2 Intermediate People's Court for killing six officers and injuring four others in the July 1 assault.