Worker at Japan Care Home Sentenced to Hang for Mass Killing

Worker at Japan Care Home Sentenced to Hang for Mass Killing
Journalists gather in front of Tsukui Yamayuri-en, a facility for the handicapped where a former care home employee killed 19 disabled people, in Sagamihara, outside Tokyo, Japan, on July 26, 2016. Eugene Hoshiko/File/AP Photo
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A Japanese court on Monday sentenced a former care home employee to hang for knifing to death 19 people with disabilities 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.