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.
Hiroshi Zota
Katsutoshi Takahashi (left) and Seiya Miyamoto -- relatives of the September 1999 murders in Tokyo's Ikebukuro district -- face reporters at the Tokyo District Court after Hiroshi Zota was sentenced to death.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.