Man, in retrial, given death for murders committed at age 18

HIROSHIMA, Japan - Hiroshi Motomura, the husband of Yayoi, who was killed along with her 11-month-old daughter and raped afterward by a man who was then 18, speaks at a news conference in Hiroshima on April 22 after the Hiroshima High Court, in a retrial ordered by the Supreme Court, reversed itself and sentenced the defendant to death. The high court had earlier given him life imprisonment. (Kyodo)

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