TOKYO —

The Tokyo High Court upheld a death sentence Tuesday for a man for the murder of two people—his work colleague and his wife—respectively in 2004 and 2005 in Shizuoka Prefecture, rejecting the defendant’s appeal against the capital punishment handed down by the Shizuoka District Court in February last year.

According to the ruling, Osamu Okura, a 39-year-old former co-op store worker from the prefecture, was having an extramarital affair with a woman and stabbed Akira Makita, 37, his work colleague and his girlfriend’s boss, to death with a kitchen knife inside a car parked on a street of the city of Yaizu on Sept 16, 2004 because the man had disparaged Okura’s mistress. Okura buried the dead man’s body in a tea plantation the following day. On Sept. 9, 2005, Okura strangled his 36-year-old wife with a necktie at their home in Yaizu after she learned about his affair with the other woman. He mutilated his wife’s body and abandoned the body parts in several locations a day later, according to the ruling.

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  Ivespoken at 12:27 AM JST - 27th March

  OMG!! What the heck is going on over there in Japan!? All this mutilation with people's body is sickning! Hang him? Can't he be put in an electric chair?

  *that would soooo, be justice served!

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