In 1992, in the so-called "Iizuka case" in which two elementary school girls in Iizuka City, Fukuoka Prefecture were killed, the Supreme Court rejected a special appeal regarding the retrial of a former convict on death row prisoner who had already been sentenced to death. I made a decision and did not approve the retrial.
In 1992, two girls in the first grade of elementary school in Iizuka City, Fukuoka Prefecture were taken away on their way to school and found to have been killed. He was accused of innocence and consistently complained of innocence, but the death penalty was confirmed and the sentence was executed in 2008.
In 2009, the family requested a retrial, and the defense insisted that the police DNA test at that time was unreliable.
The Fukuoka District Court said in 2014, "It cannot be said that the DNA type of the criminal and that of the former convict on death row matched due to the subsequent improvement of the appraisal method." If you own a car with the same characteristics and the blood type of the blood stains left in the car matches the victim, it will be recognized as a criminal if you combine the evidence. " Did.
In response to this, the family of a former convict on death row made a special appeal, but Judge Hiroshi Koike of the First Small Court of the Supreme Court said, The decision was made to dismiss by the 23rd, and the decision not to allow the retrial was confirmed.