OSAKA — The Osaka High Court on Thursday upheld a lower court-imposed death sentence against a man convicted of murdering five people from Osaka Prefecture in 1992 and 1993.
Presiding Judge Hiromu Kurihara rejected the appeal of Yoshinori Ueda, 46, who was sentenced to death in March 1998 by the Osaka District Court on charges of murder and abandoning bodies.
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