Japanese Suicide Website Murderer Sentenced To Death

Japanese Suicide Website Murderer Sentenced To Death

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TOKYO -- A Japanese court on Wednesday sentenced to death a man who killed three people after making suicide pacts with them on the Internet.

The Osaka District Court sentenced Hiroshi Maeue, 38, to the gallows for suffocating to death the three and filming the killings.

"The crime was cruel, harsh and outrageous," presiding Judge Kazuo Mizushima said in court, according to Jiji Press.

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This has been quite growing not only in Japan. Although not big in numbers, it is alarming because some people really took it seriously and died.



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[edit on 28-3-2007 by searching_for_truth]