The Nagoya High Court sentenced two men to death for...

The Nagoya High Court sentenced two men to death for double murder and robbery in 1994 and 1995. Presiding Judge Hiroshi Kojima gave the death sentence to Sadashige Nitta, 61, upholding a 1999 Tsu District Court ruling. He also sentenced Masuo Yamaguchi, 51, to death, he had previously been sentenced to life imprisonment. The 1999 district court ruling was handed down in a retrial ordered after the high court in September 1997 threw out the original death sentences for the two men made in March that year as the men were represented by the same lawyer despite having a conflict of interest.