Maebashi Elderly two robbery murder case to death sentence 18:20 on September 8
Six years ago, the Supreme Court sentenced the death sentence to a defendant who was sentenced to death in the first and second trials for killing two elderly people in Maebashi City and robbing them of cash, etc. It was decided to do.
Unemployed Kazuya Tsuchiya (31) invaded Maebashi's housing in 2014 and killed a 93-year-old woman who robbed him of cash and a month later, killed an 81-year-old man. , Was accused of murder-robbery and other crimes, allegedly injuring my wife.
The Maebashi District Court in the first instance and the Tokyo High Court in the second instance sentenced to death, but the defendant appealed, and the lawyer insisted that the death penalty should be avoided because of the influence of personality disorder.
In a ruling on the 8th, the Supreme Court's 3rd small court presiding judge Michiharu Hayashi said, ``While the murderous acts of death are characterized by personality disorder, it was the defendant's own willingness to decide and carry out the killings. , Not because of the nature of the disability."
In addition, he dismissed the petition and decided that the death penalty would be confirmed, saying, "The attitude of neglecting human life is subject to strong criticism, the consequences of the loss of the lives of two people with no faults are serious, and the death penalty is unavoidable."