JAPAN: MAN SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR MURDER
Kazuo Okikura, 61, was sentenced to death for killing a wealthy woman and her
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Kazuo Okikura, 61, was sentenced to death for killing a wealthy woman and her brother in a 2008 robbery-murder in Akiruno, Japan.
Presiding Judge Kazunobu Yamazaki at the Tachikawa branch of the Tokyo District Court handed the death penalty to a former Akiruno city employee. The three-judge panel found Okikura and his accomplice guilty of conspiring to kill Hirokazu Obuku, 51, and his sister, Yasuyo, 54, on April 10, 2008.
They stole ¥350,000 in cash and dumped the corpses on a mountain in Nagano Prefecture.
Presiding Judge Kazunobu Yamazaki at the Tachikawa branch of the Tokyo District Court handed the death penalty to a former Akiruno city employee. The three-judge panel found Okikura and his accomplice guilty of conspiring to kill Hirokazu Obuku, 51, and his sister, Yasuyo, 54, on April 10, 2008.
They stole ¥350,000 in cash and dumped the corpses on a mountain in Nagano Prefecture.
— SOURCES
- (Sources: Japan Times, 13/05/2009)
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