Iizuka case second retrial motion closed closed hearing, likely to be decided after April. In 1992, two first-grade elementary school girls were abducted on their way to school in Iizuka City, Fukuoka Prefecture.
They were charged with murder and other crimes, but they consistently maintained their innocence. A former death row inmate (70 years old) was sentenced to death and executed in 2008. Three years ago in July, the family of a ex-death row inmate filed a second petition requesting a retrial.