Hmm... The young man who was been the center of controversy in Japan for the past decade is finally getting his last sentence by the supreme court in 2 hours.
He burglized a neighbor in 1999, killed her, raped her corpse, then grabbed her infant daughter and slammed her on the floor repeatedly, then choked her to death. He took some cash from the house and fled.
Due to the brutality of the crime, and his complete lack of remorse afterwards (he repeatedly taunted the victim's family arrogantly) he's been sentenced to death many times.
But a group of lawyers have decided to use this case to spearhead the abolishment of death penalty (due to massive media exposure) and appealed the case over and over. It also gained public attention from some of the most unconventional defense heard in court, such as the lawyer claiming his client thought "Doraemon will fix everything, so he had no intention of murder" and that raping her corpse was just his expression of love.
It's finally reached he supreme court, and we'll see if he'll be sentenced to death again.
As you can imagine, most public outcry is something similar to pitchforks and public burning.
