Post by Anja Nieser on Oct 1, 2006 6:47:33 GMT -5
Double-killer's death penalty stands
The killer of 2 pachinko parlor employees in Gunma Prefecture in 2003
should hang for his crimes, the Tokyo High Court ruled Friday in upholding
the death penalty for the accused.
Mitsunori Onogawa, 29, was convicted of strangling Tsunehisa Nemoto, 47,
on Feb. 23, 2003, in the village of Miyagi, which is now part of the city
of Maebashi, and dumping his corpse in a river, stealing a key to the
pachinko parlor Nemoto worked for and 3 million yen in cash from the
parlor.
He was also convicted of strangling Makoto Ishibashi, 25, a worker in
another pachinko parlor in Gunma, on April 1, 2003. He and his accomplice,
Tomoaki Takanezawa, 39, dumped the body in the same river, stole a key to
the parlor, but failed in an attempt to burglarize it.
Takanezawa's death sentence was finalized in June.
The Saitama District Court said in its ruling in March 2004 that the pair
committed "cruel acts out of greed for money."
Onogawa had appealed the district court ruling. Takanezawa appealed but
retracted it.
(source: The Japan Times)
The killer of 2 pachinko parlor employees in Gunma Prefecture in 2003
should hang for his crimes, the Tokyo High Court ruled Friday in upholding
the death penalty for the accused.
Mitsunori Onogawa, 29, was convicted of strangling Tsunehisa Nemoto, 47,
on Feb. 23, 2003, in the village of Miyagi, which is now part of the city
of Maebashi, and dumping his corpse in a river, stealing a key to the
pachinko parlor Nemoto worked for and 3 million yen in cash from the
parlor.
He was also convicted of strangling Makoto Ishibashi, 25, a worker in
another pachinko parlor in Gunma, on April 1, 2003. He and his accomplice,
Tomoaki Takanezawa, 39, dumped the body in the same river, stole a key to
the parlor, but failed in an attempt to burglarize it.
Takanezawa's death sentence was finalized in June.
The Saitama District Court said in its ruling in March 2004 that the pair
committed "cruel acts out of greed for money."
Onogawa had appealed the district court ruling. Takanezawa appealed but
retracted it.
(source: The Japan Times)