mark_15
04-25-2007, 10:45 PM
japantoday The Tokyo High Court, in a ruling that singled out gun violence as particularly vicious, sentenced a 66-year-old man to death Wednesday for murdering one person in 2004, quashing a lower court's sentence to life imprisonment. Japanese courts have rarely issued capital punishment for a single murder by a defendant who has no previous record of murder convictions. The court ruled that Tokuhisa Kumagai fatally shot Fumio Shimizu, a 77-year-old restaurant owner in Chinatown in Yokohama.., Read more... (http://www.japantoday.com/jp/news/404927)