Death sentence to be finalized for murder of wife and six children in Ibaraki; Supreme Court rejects appeal

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Death sentence to be finalized for murder of wife and six children in Ibaraki; Supreme Court rejects appeal

On the 21st, the Supreme Court's Second Petty Bench (Judge Koichi Kusano, presiding) dismissed the appeal by the defendant Doi (formerly Komatsu) Hirofumi (40), who was charged with murder and other crimes for killing his wife and six children in Hitachi City, Ibaraki Prefecture in 2017 and was sentenced to death in the first and second trials. The death sentence will be finalized. The decision was reached unanimously by all four judges. In its …