It was found that Satoshi Uematsu, a convict on death row who had been sentenced to death for murder and killed 19 residents at a facility for people with intellectual disabilities in Sagamihara City, requested the Yokohama District Court to retrial the trial.
Satoshi Uematsu, a 32-year-old prisoner, was accused of murdering 19 residents at Tsukui Yamayurien, a facility for people with intellectual disabilities in Sagamihara City in 2016. I was sentenced to death.
The lawyer appealed, but he later withdrew and the death penalty was confirmed.
Regarding this, it was found in an interview with the court that the convict on death row Uematsu had requested the Yokohama District Court to retrial the trial on the 1st of this month.
The Yokohama District Court will decide whether to allow the start of the retrial in the future.
In April, after the sentence was finalized, Uematsu convict on death row responded to an interview with an NHK reporter at the Yokohama Detention Center and said, "I thought it was wrong to continue the trial anymore. I got used to fear. "