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TOKYO AP 鈥?A Japanese court sentenced a ma yeezy n to death after finding him guilty of murder and other crimes Thursday for carrying out an arson attack on an anime studio in Kyoto that killed 36 people.The Kyoto District Court said it found the defendant, Shinji Aoba, mentally capable to face punishment for his crimes and announced the sentence of capital punishment after a recess in a two-part session on Thursday.Aoba stormed into Kyoto Animations No. 1 studio on July 18, 2019, and set it on fire. Many of the victims were believed to have died of carbon monoxide poisoning. More than 30 other people were badly burned or injured.Judge Keisuke Masuda said Aoba had wanted to be a novelist but was unsuccessful adidas originals and so he sought revenge, thinking that Kyoto Animation had stolen novels he submitted as part of a company contest, according to NHK national television.NHK also reported that Aoba, who was out of work and struggling financially a jordan fter repeatedly changing jobs, had plotted a separate attack on a train station north of Tokyo a month before the arson attack on the animation studio.Aoba plotted the attacks after studying past criminal cases involving arson, the court said in the ruling, noting the process showed that Aoba had premeditated the crime and was mentally capable. The attack that instantly turned the studio into hell and took the precious lives of 36 people, caused them indescribable pain, the judge said, according to NHK. During the trial, Aoba told the victims ;