DEATH SENTENCE UPHELD FOR CHILD MURDERS

the provincial high court in China's Fujian province upheld the death sentence against former doctor Zheng Minsheng for stabbing eight children to death outside their school on March 23, 2010, in a fit of rage after splitting up with his girlfriend. "The facts for the original verdict were clear, the evidence was reliable and abundant, the conviction was accurate, and the penalty was appropriate," the court said.