MAN SENTENCED TO DEATH IN CHINA FOR SCHOOL ATTACK

a court in eastern China sentenced unemployed man Xu Yuyuan to death for knifing 29 children and three adults with a meat cleaver at a kindergarten at Zhongxin nursery school in Taixing city on April 29, 2010. Xu, who had been jobless for nine years, told the court his motive was to vent his rage against society, but he appealed against a death penalty because he had not killed anyone.