Prosecutors demanded the death penalty Friday for a 34-year-old woman on trial for the murders of her 9-year-old daughter and a 7-year-old neighbor boy in Akita Prefecture in 2006.
The focal point of Suzuka Hatakeyama's Akita District Court trial has been whether she intended to kill her daughter, Ayaka, because the defendant has already admitted killing the boy, Goken Yoneyama.
The trial was scheduled to end Friday with final defense arguments, and the court is scheduled to hand down its ruling on March 19.