Crime › Death penalty sought again for Akita woman over slaying of 2 kids
                   
japantoday.com
25-Sep-2008
        

Thursday 25th September, 03:27 PM JST AKITA — Prosecutors on Thursday again demanded the death penalty for a 35-year-old woman for murdering her 9-year-old daughter and a 7-year-old neighbor boy in Akita Prefecture in 2006. In the first appeal hearing in the high-profile murder case at the Sendai High Court’s Akita branch, the prosecutors claimed that the life sentence handed down by the Akita District Court on... [read full story]                    

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