Prosecutors have as soon as once more demanded the demise penalty within the retrial of the so-called Hakamada Case, which is being held on the Shizuoka District Court.

Iwao Hakamada, 88, was convicted and sentenced to demise in 1966 for allegedly murdering 4 members of a miso firm govt’s household within the former metropolis of Shimizu.

In this retrial, each the prosecution and the protection have been debating the colour of the bloodstains on 5 items of clothes mentioned to have been worn by Hakamada through the crime.

On May 22, through the fifteenth session of the retrial on the Shizuoka District Court, prosecutors reiterated their demand for the demise penalty.

Following this, the protection delivered their remaining arguments, and Hakamada’s sister, Hideko, offered her assertion, concluding all hearings and bringing the trial to a detailed.

Source: ANN