The Supreme Court rejected the special appeal and refused to approve the retrial of an 18-year-old ex-boy who was sentenced to death for killing two people in Ishinomaki City, Miyagi Prefecture 11 years ago. The decision has been finalized.
In 2010, three men and women were stabbed with a knife in a house in Ishinomaki City, Miyagi Prefecture, a woman and a friend who lived in this house died, and a man who was there was also seriously injured. Yutaro Chiba, a 30-year-old convict on death row, was charged with murder and was sentenced to death.
This was the first case in which the death penalty was confirmed in a juvenile delinquency case heard by a lay judge.
The convict on death row petitioned to redo the trial in 2017, saying that "the finalized judgment has an error in the fact finding", but the Sendai District Court decided not to allow the retrial, and the Sendai High Court did not. ..
For this reason, the death row prisoner had made a special appeal, but Judge Eriko Watanabe of the Supreme Court's Third Small Court decided to dismiss it by the 13th, and the decision not to allow retrial was confirmed.