In Japan, sentenced to death , pastor and his mother

Japanese court sentenced to death a woman who brutally killed a priest and his elderly mother, abducting with 1.5 thousand dollars.

The District Court Japanese city of Morioka sentenced to death 46-year-old woman found guilty of double murder. The crime was committed in the prefecture of Iwate, transmits Breitbart.com referring to the Associated Press.

As can be seen from the record 11 June 2007 Shoko Chiba, armed with a kitchen knife, attacked a 59-year-old pastor Hidenaga Suzuki and the team scored his death. Since then, Women's killing his 81-year-old mother Umeko. She repeatedly hit the woman on the head with ashtrays, and then her with a knife. After committing the brutal murder, Shoko Chiba stole from their victims 150 thousand yen (about 1.5 thousand dollars).

Lawyers for Shoko Chiba do not dispute the fact of murder, but the demand to withdraw from women charged with robbery. They also do not agree with the offense as intentional, as stated in the verdict of the court Naoto Sasaki.

Note that the Japanese justice rarely women sentenced to capital punishment. Thus, in late 2002, a similar verdict was handed down 41-year-old found guilty in the deaths of four people.

How should a case, an insurance agent Masumi Hayashi in the dish "curry" arsenic, leaving 63 people injured, taste poison at the village festival. The four victims, including two children, died.

Heinous crime that took place in July 1998, shocked the entire Japan. And yet the crime rate in the country was low and the mass killings occurred very rarely. It later in the Country of the Rising Sun, one after another began to occur brutal bloody massacres, including children, committed by mentally unstable people.

The press Hayashi earned the nickname " century." Motive for the crime has been falling-out with local residents, women, and then she decided to take revenge. Hayashi imperceptible to enter into the kitchen, where meals were prepared for guests of a village festival, and arsenic in food.

According to statistics, up to the sentence in Japan, only 13 women were sentenced to execution. This account is from 1949, when he was adopted by the current set of laws in Japan.