MAN SENTENCED TO DEATH IN CHINA FOR VIOLENT ATTACK

Zhou Yezhong, 36, accused of fatally stabbing eight people, including three of his family members on May 8, 2010, was sentenced to death at a court in east China's Jiangxi province. Zhou was charged with and convicted of wilful murder in the first-instance trial by the intermediary people's court of Ji'an city of Jiangxi Province, said Long Xiaomao, a spokesman of the court.