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Date Added: May 26, 2008 09:40:02 PM

NAGASAKI (Kyodo) The Nagasaki District Court sentenced a 60-year-old gangster to death Monday for assassinating Nagasaki Mayor Itcho Ito during an election campaign last year. Tetsuya Shiroo shot Ito, 61, twice with a pistol on the evening of April 17, 2007, near his campaign office in front of JR Nagasaki Station, prosecutors said in their closing argument. Ito died 6 1/2 hours later. The crime ...

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