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Wednesday, December 12, 2007 8:08 pm

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Father of murdered Akita schoolboy seeks death penalty for accused killer

The father of a murdered 7-year-old schoolboy asked the Akita District Court on Wednesday to hand down the death penalty to a 34-year-old woman on trial for the killing, saying he didn’t consider her to be human.

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