Japan care home killer gets death

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Updated At : 01:29 PM Mar 17, 2020 IST

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Yokohama, March 16

A Japanese man was sentenced to death on Monday for the murder of 19 disabled people at a care home in 2016, in one of the country’s worst ever mass killings.

Satoshi Uematsu never disputed his involvement in the grisly rampage but his lawyers entered a plea of not guilty, arguing the 30-year-old was suffering a “mental disorder” linked to his use of marijuana.

The court ruled the former employee of the facility deserved no leniency over the 2016 attack. “The lives of 19 people were taken away. This is profoundly grave,” chief judge Kiyoshi Aonuma told the court. — AFP

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