Prosecutors seek 23 years in prison for doctor in murder case involving ALS patient. Five years ago, in the trial of a doctor who was accused of killing a Kyoto woman suffering from the incurable disease ALS at her request, prosecutors sentenced him to prison.
The verdict is scheduled to be handed down on the 5th of next month. The defendant's lawyer asserted his innocence, saying, ``Punishing the doctor would deny women's choices and decisions.'' Okubo, along with another former doctor, is also accused of murdering the former doctor's father 13 years ago.