A man was sentenced to death in a retrial Thursday for the fatal robbery of an elderly couple at their central Japan home in March 2017.Hiroshi Yamada was given the sentence sought by prosecutors after the Nagoya District Court ruled that he had murdered the couple with the intention of robbing them.In the first trial in March 2019, the court had ruled that the robbery might not have been premeditated and given Yamada, 48, a life sentence.But the Nagoya High Court reversed the ruling in January 2020, saying his motive was not thoroughly examined in the trial. The Supreme Court in September …READ FULL ARTICLE
