SOUTH KOREA: HIGH COURT CONFIRMS DEATH PENALTY FOR SERIAL MURDERS

the Seoul High Court in South Korea upheld a lower court's death sentence for Kang Ho-sun, 38, for the murder of 10 women. Ho-sun was convicted of kidnapping and killing eight women between September 2006 and December 2008 and killing his wife and mother-in-law in an arson attack in 2005. He was given the death sentence in April.