JAPAN COURT REJECTS DEATH ROW INMATE'S RETRIAL REQUEST

the Toyama District Court, Japan, dismissed a request for a retrial filed by a woman convicted of abducting and murdering two women in 1980 in Toyama and Nagano prefectures. In turning down the request of Tomoko Miyazaki, 61, Presiding Judge Masato Tesaki said the defendant failed to present any new evidence and had merely insisted there was inappropriateness in the courts' handling of evidence in the trial.