BEIJING - A court in central sentenced an unlicensed driver to death Thursday for running over an 8-year-old girl and dragging her under his car for 320 feet (100 meters), state media reported.
The victim, Wen Mengtian, died from head injuries following the Jan. 26 incident, the official Xinhua News Agency said.
The court in the city of Chongqing ruled that Peng Jiang had committed murder by continuing to drive on after jumping the curb and knocking down Wen and another woman, Xinhua reported.
Two other men who were in the car with Peng and allegedly urged him to keep driving after the incident were given sentences of seven years each, the report said.
Xinhua said the three men fled the scene and later had the car wrecked.
Death sentences in China face automatic review by the Supreme Court and are usually carried out by firing squad. - AP