Death penalty for murder

Death penalty for murder

TOKYO, Japan - Hiroshi Motomura is pictured during a press conference in Tokyo on Feb. 20, 2012. The Supreme Court earlier in the day upheld a lower court sentence of capital punishment for a man over the murder of Motomura's wife and their baby girl in Hikari, Yamaguchi Prefecture, in 1999 when the man was 18. (Kyodo)

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