Japan top court rejects appeal by man over 2017 murder of wife, kids

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Japan top court rejects appeal by man over 2017 murder of wife, kids

Japan's top court on Friday rejected an appeal by a man convicted of killing his wife and five children before setting their home on fire near Tokyo in 2017, finalizing his death sentence. The Supreme Court's No. 2 Petty Bench, in a unanimous decision by its four judges, upheld lower…

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On the 21st, the Supreme Court's Second Petty Bench (Judge Koichi Kusano, presiding) dismissed the appeal by the defendant Doi (formerly Komatsu) Hirofumi (40), who was charged with murder and other crimes for killing his wife and six children in Hitachi City, Ibaraki Prefecture in 2017 and was sentenced to death in the first and second trials. The death sentence will be finalized. The decision was reached unanimously by all four judges. In its …