A man was sentenced to death on Thursday for kidnapping and murdering three children late last year. Zhang Xingyan, 33, from Gangkou township in Yueyang, kidnapped and killed two girls and a boy aged between 8 and 9 on Oct 30 because of a grudge against the boy's family, according to the intermediate people's court of Yueyang. Zhang lured the children to a car when they were on their way to school, and then he killed them and left their bodies on the roadside, the court said. Zhang was also a neighbor and distant relative of the victims