Top court upholds death penalty over 1998 curry poisoning case

Top court upholds death penalty over 1998 curry poisoning case

TOKYO, Japan - People line up in front of the Supreme Court in Tokyo on April 21 to obtain court gallery tickets for the trial of Masumi Hayashi, who was sentenced to death by lower courts for killing four people and poisoning 63 others by lacing a curry stew with arsenic in Wakayama in 1998. The top court dismissed her not-guilty plea, bringing an end to a nearly decade-long trial process.

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