JAPAN MAN GIVEN DEATH FOR MURDER-ROBBERY DURING PAROLE

the Japanese Supreme Court upheld the death sentence handed to Shozo Nishiyama, 54, for killing a woman in Fukuyama, Hiroshima Prefecture, in 1992 while he was on parole from a life sentence for murder and robbery. According to the ruling, Nishiyama, who was released on parole in July 1989, killed his acquaintance Yasuno Naito, 87, and took her bank book on March 29, 1992, in conspiracy with another man who was sentenced to life imprisonment. The Hiroshima District Court in 1994 sentenced Nishiyama to life imprisonment and this was upheld by the Hiroshima High Court in 1997.  But the Supreme Court in 1999 remanded the case to the high court, which subsequently sentenced Nishiyama to death in 2004.