Peruvian man sentenced to death over 2015 murders near Tokyo

A Peruvian man accused of killing six people, including two girls, in their homes in Saitama Prefecture in 2015 was sentenced to death Friday by a Japanese court.The Saitama District Court handed down the capital sentence to 32-year-old Vayron Jonathan Nakada Ludena, concluding that he can be held liable for his crimes. His defense counsel, who had argued the defendant has schizophrenia and was not mentally competent to be held responsible for his conduct, appealed the ruling.Nakada Ludena was charged with murder-robbery. The sentence, reached by a panel of professional and lay judges, was …READ FULL ARTICLE