Japan sentence man to death over internet murders

A Japanese man has been sentenced to death for murdering three people he lured through a suicide website by offering to die with them.

An Osaka court official said Hiroshi Maeue, 38, agreed to a suicide pact with Michiko Nagamoto, then 25, in 2005, but instead strangled her in a parked car and disposed of her body in western Japan, according to a police statement.