JAPAN: MAN TO HANG FOR MURDERS
November 1, 2011: in Japan, Sunao Takami was sentenced to hang for killing five people in a fire at a pachinko parlour in Osaka in 2009. A jury of six members of the public and a panel of three judges rejected the defence argument that Takami was mentally ill at the time of the crime. (Sources: ABC.net.au, 01/11/2011)
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