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JAPAN: TOP COURT UPHOLDS DEATH SENTENCE ON GANGSTER FOR KILLING 4 IN SHOOTING
July 10, 2009: the Japanese Supreme Court upheld a man’s death sentence for killing a rival gang member and three bystanders in a shooting at a bar in Maebashi, Gunma Prefecture, on January 5, 2003. The top court's No. 2 petty bench dismissed an appeal by Masato Kohinata, 39, against lower court decisions sentencing him to death.
Two others in the case have appealed their death sentences. (Sources: Kyodo, 10/07/2009)
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