A Japanese woman who was nicknamed
'Black Widow' for murdering three of her former lovers faces execution
by hanging after the country’s Supreme Court rejected her final appeal.
Kanae Kijima having changed her surname to Doi
while on death row has long maintained her innocence.
She was handed the
death penalty in 2012 for the murders of Takao Terad, 53, Kenzo Ando,
80, and 41-year-old Yoshiyuki Oide, the Japan Times reported.
The 42-year-old still disputes the guilty charges,
with her defense team claiming the trio of men took their own lives. Her
death sentence was upheld two years after the initial ruling by a Tokyo
High Court and again by the Supreme Court on Friday.
Motivated by financial greed, she sought out the
men online, all of whom died from carbon monoxide poisoning within a
span of eight months in 2009.
According to the 2012 ruling, she burned coal briquettes after drugging her victims with sleeping pills.
Prosecutors, who relied mostly on circumstantial
evidence, claimed she murdered the men so she wouldn’t have to pay back
money they gave to her.
Prior to Friday’s hearing, Kijima, in a blog she writes from her detention center, wrote: ‘I hope to see you again someday.'
Japan’s death penalty, which is supported by the
majority of citizens, is exclusively achieved by hanging and typically
takes years to carry out.
Source: NY Daily
5 comments:
Oh well...
... Merited happiness
Hian! And she's appealing? She can kill but no wan die?
Long live LIB
good for her
-D great anonymous now as Vivian Reginalds
Rip in advance
She shud suffer retribution.
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