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Death sentence for S.Korea serial killer

A South Korean court yesterday convicted and handed down a death sentence to a masseur charged with killing 10 people, including his wife and mother-in-law.

Kang Ho-sun, 38, was indicted in February in the slayings of eight office workers, karaoke bar employees and university students after abducting them between September 2006 and December 2008. Prosecutors said he had confessed to those slayings.