An elderly man will remain on death row after the Tokyo...

An elderly man will remain on death row after the Tokyo High dismissed his appeal, ruling that a confession he gave to a 1988 double murder was unreliable but his guilt could be proved from other evidence. Kazutoshi Takahashi was seeking to have a September 1995 murder conviction quashed, arguing that the confession to the double slaying had been beaten out of him by investigators. But Presiding Judge Takeo Nakanishi ruled the death sentence the Yokohama District Court gave him just over seven years ago was valid.