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Date Added: April 22, 2008 09:58:01 AM
TOKYO (Reuters) - A Japanese man was sentenced to death by a regional court on Tuesday for killing a woman and her baby daughter when he was 18, a ruling that follows intense public debate in Japan over how severely young offenders should be punished.

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