TOKYO—A Japanese court on March 16 sentenced a former care home employee to be hanged for knifing to death 19 disabled people and injuring two dozen others in the deadliest mass attack in post-World War II Japan.
The Yokohama District Court convicted Satoshi Uematsu of the killings and of injuring 24 other residents and two caregivers at the Yamayuri-en residential center in July 2016.
