A man and his girlfriend were sentenced to death Friday for killing the woman's husband in 1992 and her son in 1998 for life insurance money.
Antique dealer Kazuo Hokao, 55, and former insurance saleswoman Reiko Yamaguchi, 44, drowned her husband Katsuhiko Yamaguchi, 38, at a quay in Tara, Saga Prefecture, on Sept. 11, 1992, after giving him sleeping pills, the Nagasaki District Court ruled.
The pair also drowned Yamaguchi's 16-year-old son, Yoshinori, in Konagai, Nagasaki Prefecture, on Oct. 27, 1998, according to the ruling.