Top court upholds death penalty on serial killer

Top court upholds death penalty on serial killer

TOKYO, Japan - Justice Tokiyasu Fujita presides over the Supreme Court's No. 3 petty bench, which unanimously upheld on Jan. 17 a lower court ruling sentencing Tsutomu Miyazaki to death for abducting and murdering four girls in 1988 and 1989 in Tokyo and neighboring Saitama Prefecture.

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