The Fukuoka High Court, Japan, quashed the death penalty...

The Fukuoka High Court, Japan, quashed the death penalty for Reiko Yamaguchi, a woman convicted of murdering her husband and son and reduced it to life imprisonment, saying she had been lured by her male accomplice and could be rehabilitated. But the court upheld the death sentence for her accomplice.
Former insurance saleswoman Yamaguchi, 45, and former antiques dealer Kazuo Hokao, 56, killed her 38-year-old husband Katsuhiko on September 11, 1992 by pushing him into the sea off a quay in Tara, Saga Prefecture. The motive behind the crimes was to collect 98.7 million yen in insurance money, the court said.
They also killed Yamaguchi's 16-year-old son, Yoshinori, in a similar manner in the town of Konagai, Nagasaki Prefecture, on October 27, 1998. They attempted to claim 35 million yen in insurance money after the boy's death, but police began investigating the case after finding ingredients of sleeping pills in Yoshinori's body, as well as doubting the couple's account of his death.
In January 2003, the Saga District Court sentenced both Yamaguchi and Hokao to death, concluding that Yamaguchi had played the leading role.
At the High Court however, Presiding Judge Yasuo Torai ruled that the incidents "would have never occurred if Hokao had not lured" Yamaguchi into committing the crimes.