A man in his 60s, who had been in a coma by beating his wife during a marital fight, had been nursing for five years, but was sentenced to death after being passed on to trial after his wife died.

The Incheon District Court said it sentenced two-year prison sentence to A, 64-year-old who was accused of killing him.

Mr. A punched his wife B's head and chest dozens of times with a fist in an apartment at Bupyeong-gu, Incheon on March 28, 2014, at 11 PM.

Mr. B fell into a coma due to a serious injury such as a broken skull, and died in August last year, five years after the incident after being treated at a nursing home.

"The defendant assaulted his wife, and in the end, there was a serious consequence that the victim lost his precious life," he said. "It is necessary to punish severely."

However, he said, "I admitted to committing a crime and deeply reflecting on it, and it seems to have been committed accidentally."

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