High court reviewing sentence in poisoning

Student convicted of killing roommate by spiking drinking water with toxic chemical

The nation's highest court is reviewing a death penalty case involving a 28-year-old medical student convicted of killing his roommate with poison despite his claims that it was an April Fools' Day prank that went wrong.

Lin Senhao, a student at Fudan University in Shanghai, was sentenced to death in February 2014 for the murder of his roommate and classmate Huang Yang, who died of liver, kidney and lung failure more than two weeks after falling ill.