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.

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.

Death penalty for murder

Death penalty for murder

TOKYO, Japan - Hiroshi Motomura (front C) enters the Supreme Court in Tokyo on Feb. 20, 2012. The Supreme Court that 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 defendant was 18.

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

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

HIROSHIMA, Japan - Crowds line up outside the Hiroshima High Court on April 22 for admission tickets to attend the retrial of a 27-year-old man who was convicted of killing, when he was 18, a 23-year-old woman and her 11-month-old daughter in Hikari, Yamaguchi Prefecture, in 1999 and raping the woman afterward. In a retrial ordered by the Supreme Court, the high court sentenced the defendant to death, reversing an earlier ruling giving him life imprisonment.

Teen sent to prosecutors over school blast

Teen sent to prosecutors over school blast

YAMAGUCHI, Japan - A car carrying an 18-year-old male high school student is about to leave a police station in Hikari, Yamaguchi Prefecture, on June 12. The boy was sent to public prosecutors over the explosion at a high school that injured 58 students.