A 26-year-old former newspaper delivery man was sentenced to death Friday for stabbing and clubbing two people to death and injuring six others in 1999 on a street in Tokyo's Ikebukuro district.
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The Tokyo District Court found Hiroshi Zota, a native of Okayama Prefecture, guilty of murder and attempted murder for his attack on passersby in broad daylight in front of the Tokyu Hands store in Ikebukuro.